China draws its own “red line” …on North Korea « Hot Air

China draws its own “red line” …on North Korea « Hot Air: "North Korea doesn’t have many allies, but they managed to irritate even the Cubans with some of their irrational temper tantrums, and China especially has not been pleased with their ludicrous nuclear antics of late. They’ve long since tired of constantly playing the NorK’s babysitter in the region, but still — for awhile now, China has been pondering getting more forcible with North Korea in theory while continuing to coddle them in practice. As Jonathan Pollack explained at the NYT in January shortly after Kim Jong-Un had his Communist Party elder-statesman uncle executed seemingly out of the blue."



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