Originally Posted by
Fuchs
Oh, we can turn it into a problem. Carrots and sticks.
Whenever we deny China something, we can say "You would have got it if you had fixed North Korea into something bearable." Whenever we do something embarrassing to china we could say "We would respect your feelings and sensitivities more if you had fixed North Korea into something bearable." Whenever North Korea does something stupid such as firing a torpedo, we can support South Korea in its reaction and publicly blame the PRC as North Korea's big brother and expose that China is either too weak to exert influence on a small neighbour or implicated itself.
We can furthermore create the foreign policy environment for PRC to "fix" NK without accusations of war of aggression et cetera (it could even get a UN permit for an invasion, considering that NK is in theory still at war with South Korea and keeps violating the cease fire!) and the PRC can then exercise enough control to avoid reunification talks for the time being.
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