Kim was treated as a major world leader in Beijing, and gained practical support from his two big neighbours.
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China has traditionally viewed North Korea as a security buffer and an ideologically aligned neighbor it can dominate.
The latest salvo of insults and threats between President Trump and North Korea’s Kim brought the region a little bit closer to war. China, North Korea’s closest trading partner, may be the only way out.
The president said he’s considering ending trade with any country that does business with North Korea. Here’s why that will never happen.
China’s Xi Jinping has a crucial political manoeuvre to execute at home – and North Korea has stolen the limelight.
China is North Korea’s biggest trading partner by far, giving the former a great deal of leverage over the behavior of its neighbor.
