N Korea threat testing US-China relations
Trump-Xi meeting could bring North-east Asia situation to new crossroads.
Beijing
WITH the threat from North Korea's nuclear breakout growing daily, repair of Sino-US relations has assumed new urgency. The meeting between the US and Chinese presidents, Donald Trump and Xi Jinping, in April could bring their relations and the security situation in North-east Asia to a new crossroads.
The gravity of the threat was highlighted when North Korea fired a rocket engine, with the capacity to propel an intercontinental ballistic missile, on March 18 while US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson visited Beijing. In a short time, North Korea has become a de facto nuclear power conducting, just in 2016, two nuclear tests and 21 missile tests, and this year at least six increasingly advanced missile tests.
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