China's playing the North Korea card
Beijing wants to use Pyongyang to weaken the US-South Korea alliance and undermine US's position in Asia.
US President Donald Trump wants China to solve his number one foreign policy challenge - taming the nuclear ambitions of North Korea's mad young dictator, Kim Jong-un.
But China would like to use North Korea to weaken the US-South Korea alliance and undermine the US's position in Asia.
North Korea is a very curious case. During the Cold War period, it was not very different from other communist countries. It had a centrally planned economy which seemed to work well for a while, before its inherent inefficiencies eventually became evident.
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