Gordon Chang: China Will Continue To Help the North Koreans

‘Chinese policy, over the course of decades, has been consistent, and that has been to support the North Koreans ... China is not going to change its policy’

"North Korea does things which China wants them not to do. But nonetheless, Chinese policy over the course of decades has been consistent and that has been to support the North Koreans, and that is largely because of some short-term advantages that Beijing gets …

There is a lot of things that we can do to push China in the right direction especially because Chinese economy now is stumbling … I think what the United States is going to do is talk to the Chinese. This is a long-term, multi-decade conversation, but primarily, I think we should apply pressure directly to North Koreans because that's where we think we can get probably more action."

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