Greater cooperation between North Korea and Russia could throw off the delicate balance in the Indo-Pacific, a region where China has for so long pulled the puppet strings.
Vladimir Putin’s rolling out of the red carpet for North Korea’s Kim Jong-un is likely to displease Xi Jinping.
Even worse, Kim’s visit could throw regional stability off course, something that China values deeply . Beijing doesn’t want to be forced onto one side or the other. Xi personally courted Putin, so it would be embarrassing to have a public break from Russia at this point – doing so would indicate that Xi perhaps made a poor decision.It is why Beijing has, more than a year into the war, shied away from denouncing Putin’s invasion, and refuses to publicly take a side.
But most of all, greater cooperation between North Korea and Russia could throw off the delicate balance in the Indo-Pacific, a region where China has for so long pulled the puppet strings.
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