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Yes, you have a point. But I would argue that while intelligence operations are commonplace practices of states, direct military actions require more thoughts a
by paradite 10y ago
Yes, you have a point. But I would argue that while intelligence operations are commonplace practices of states, direct military actions require more thoughts and it is not something Chinese government would carry out without proper justification.
Basically on this matter, the Chinese government has taken a similar approach as the previous US administration, which is to not take actions. On hindsight of course it is easy to say China (Obama) should have done this or that. But it was quite hard to justify actions against NK until pretty recently. And indeed actions were taken in the form of economic sanctions in light of recent events.
- fra 10y agoNo, the chinese government is not adopting the same stance as previous US admins. The US have an embargo against North Korea, whereas the chinese are selling them materials to build their missiles with. They could start by putting political pressure on them, levying trade sanctions and publicly denouncing their nuclear program.
- paradite 10y agoWhich they exactly did: North Korea’s Hydrogen Bomb Claim Strains Ties With China JAN. 6, 2016 https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/07/world/asia/north-korea-china-hydrogen-test.html https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/07/world/asia/north-korea-ch... China announces sanctions against North Korea 5 April 2016 http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/china-announces-sanctions-against-north-korea-a6969256.html http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/china-announces...