Brinkmanship in the Yellow Sea
Authoritarian regimes are hard to predict in terms of why they make specific decisions -- when major shifts are likely in their foreign policy, even on issues of high politics; and especially how candid those regimes are in dealing with each other.
These are some of the bewildering issues involving Sino-North Korean relations. We know that North Korea is…
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