[americanophile]

I don't see them doing so openly, but you can bet that China doesn't want to U.S. troops at the Manchurian border - a couple of hundred miles from Beijing. With the U.S. needing 90 days to pivot, South Korea will need that army if it ever came to it. Even if it only proved to be a battle between the Koreas, it would be devastating.

[Straight Vermonter]

If the North ever comes across that border there will be a lot of people saying Rumsfeld was right. He wanted to build the leaner, more air mobile military that we would need to deploy quickly into the theater.