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04.21.17China Reveals New Dongfeng Missiles
Huffington Post
China has been staging its armed demonstrations recently, which seems to be aimed at suppressing rising tensions on the Korean Peninsula.
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04.21.17US Official: With Eye on North Korea, China Puts Bombers on ‘High Alert’
CNN
China put cruise missile-capable bombers ‘on high alert’ this week as the United States sees evidence the Chinese military is preparing to respond to a potential situation in North Korea, a US defense official told CNN.
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04.21.17Why Trump’s Plan to Use China against North Korea Is Probably Doomed
Vox
President Trump believes the road to disarming North Korea runs through China, its biggest and most powerful ally. The problem is that Beijing doesn’t seem willing to do much of anything to rein Pyongyang in.
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04.20.17China Criticizes North Korea, Praises US on Nuclear Issue
CNN
China may be getting fed up with continued nuclear bluster from long-time ally North Korea and tilting toward the United States.
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04.20.17China Left as Observer as Tensions Rise on Korean Peninsula
Washington Post
China’s foreign minister recently likened the U.S. and North Korea to two speeding trains hurtling toward each other, an analogy that would seem to place China in the role of helpless bystander. And indeed, while tensions have risen, Beijing has...
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04.19.17China’s President Is Playing Donald Trump Like a Fiddle
Week
President Trump thinks he has worked out a magnificent “deal” with China. The outlines of the deal are fairly simple to understand: Trump is prepared to drop his economic grievances against China in exchange for China's help in fixing “the...
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04.18.17The North Korean threat is literally on parade. Can Trump get China to act?
Washington Post
Is Mr. Trump driving toward a new outcome with China or the same old dead end?
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04.17.17Senior Chinese, U.S. Officials Exchange Views on Korean Peninsula Situation
China Central Television (CCTV)
Chinese State Councilor Yang Jiechi and U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson exchanged views on the situation on the Korean Peninsula via phone on April 16.
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04.14.17China Warns of ‘Storm Clouds Gathering’ in U.S.-North Korea Standoff
New York Times
China warned on Friday that tensions on the Korean Peninsula could spin out of control, as North Korea said it could test a nuclear weapon at any time and an American naval group neared the peninsula in a show of resolve.
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04.14.17Will China Stand Aside if North Korea Wants to Talk to Trump?
South China Morning Post
The science of using artificial intelligence to gauge the destructiveness of each bomb, however, is not something North Korea seems interested in, even though Pyongyang has access to super computers. Why?
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04.14.17Air China Clarifies Ticket Sales to Blame for Temporary Flight Cuts to Pyongyang; No Suspension of Services
South China Morning Post
Air China, the only Chinese carrier with regular services to North Korea, clarified on Friday that it was not suspending flights between Beijing and Pyongyang, state media reported.
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04.13.17Trump Thought China Could Get North Korea to Comply. It’s Not That Easy.
Washington Post
Beijing’s nightmare scenario is a collapse of the Kim regime, which could also open the door to reunification with South Korea, another nightmare for Beijing.
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04.13.17China Says Its Trade with North Korea Has Increased
New York Times
Amid sharply rising tensions over North Korea’s nuclear arms program, China said on Thursday that its trade with the country had expanded, even though it had complied with United Nations sanctions and stopped buying North Korean coal
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04.13.17Kim Jong Un’s Rockets Are Getting an Important Boost—from China
Washington Post
Despite China’s public efforts to rein in North Korea’s provocative behavior, Chinese companies continue to act as enablers, supplying the isolated communist regime with technology and hardware that allow its missiles to take flight
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04.12.17China Rejects North Korean Coal Shipments after Missile Test and U.S. Pressure
Foreign Policy
China is turning back shipments of North Korean coal from its ports, a sign of Beijing’s growing concern over the nuclear weapons capability of its wayward neighbor.
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04.10.17China and South Korea Said to Promise Tougher Sanctions if North Conducts Tests
New York Times
China and South Korea agreed on Monday to impose tougher sanctions on North Korea if it carries out nuclear or intercontinental ballistic missile tests
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04.06.17Jared Kushner Is One of Trump's Top Advisers on China
New York Magazine
When President Trump meets with his Chinese counterpart at Mar-a-Lago this weekend, he will not have the assistant secretaries of State and Defense for East Asia at his side — because his administration has failed to hire anyone for either of those...
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04.04.17As Trump-Xi Summit Looms, Evidence of Strained Ties on China-North Korea Border
Reuters
What was planned in 2011 as a 30 billion yuan ($4.36 billion) development intended to showcase economic engagement between the two countries has stalled in recent months.
China in the World Podcast
03.29.17
Trump’s First Test in Asia, Part II
from Carnegie China
While President Trump appoints new officials to his administration and reviews policy frameworks, Asia-Pacific leaders are moving ahead. Since taking office, Trump has grappled with consequential developments in the region, ranging from North Korea’...
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03.20.17Rex Tillerson and Xi Jinping Meet in China and Emphasize Cooperation
New York Times
Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson and President Xi Jinping of China cast aside their differences on Sunday with a public display of cooperation, sidestepping areas of disagreement even as North Korea made another defiant statement by showing off a...
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03.20.17In China Debut, Tillerson Appears to Hand Beijing a Diplomatic Victory
Washington Post
While his boss was goading China over Twitter, new Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has been trying to build a constructive and “results-oriented” relationship with the leadership in Beijing.
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03.20.17The Real Reason China Won’t Exert Economic Pressure on North Korea
South China Morning Post
U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson thinks that if only he can enlist Beijing’s support, sanctions will compel Kim Jong-un to give up his nuclear arsenal—here’s why he’s wrong
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03.17.17Next Stop Beijing: Tillerson Seeks to Press China on North Korea
Bloomberg
The U.S. is hoping the urgency of North Korea’s advancing ballistic-missile technology will compel China to crack down on banks and other businesses that provide an economic lifeline to Kim Jong Un’s regime despite United Nations sanctions.
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03.15.17Chinese Premier Calls for Return to Talks on North Korean Nukes
NBC News
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang called Wednesday for all parties to return to talks amid rising tensions over North Korea’s nuclear weapons and missile programs.
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03.09.17China Tried to Get the U.S. to Negotiate with North Korea—the U.S. Declined
Washington Post
The United States rebuffed a proposal from China to “apply the brakes” to an escalating standoff with North Korea, saying “positive action” was required before either country would engage with “irresponsible” leader Kim Jong Un.
Conversation
03.09.17
Is THAAD the Start of a U.S.-China Arms Race?
In late February, U.S. President Donald Trump called for adding $54 billion to the U.S. military budget—an increase of roughly 10 percent. And in early March, despite outcry from Beijing, the United States began deploying the Terminal High-Altitude...
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03.08.17China Wants to Avert ‘Head-on Collision’ in the Koreas, but Will Trump Sign on?
Washington Post
China’s foreign minister has a plan to ease tensions in East Asia: North Korea should stop testing missiles, and the United States and South Korea should stop joint military exercises, he said Wednesday.
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03.07.17China Warns U.S., Korea of ‘Consequences’ for Missile System
CNBC
China has said it will take unspecified measures against a U.S. missile system being deployed in S. Korea, and warned that Washington and Seoul will bear the consequences.
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03.06.17North Korea Tests Four More Missiles—and China’s Patience
Washington Post
At 7:36 a.m. Monday, local time, North Korea launched four missiles that flew about 600 miles over land before splashing into the Sea of Japan.
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02.28.17China Reacts with Anger, Threats After South Korean Missile Defense Decision
Reuters
Chinese state media have reacted with anger and boycott threats after the board of an affiliate of South Korea’s Lotte Group approved a land swap with the government that allows authorities to deploy a U.S. missile defense system
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02.27.17How to Persuade China to Squeeze North Korea’s Lifeline
Foreign Policy
Beijing is reluctant to give Pyongyang a real ultimatum—but the U.S. can bring it round
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02.24.17China and North Korea Reveal Sudden, and Deep, Cracks in Their Friendship
New York Times
For decades, North Korea could count on China as a loyal ally despite the erratic behavior of the ruling Kim dynasty. But by this week, things may have gone too far, with North Korea unleashing a tirade in which it deployed some of the most damning...
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02.23.17North Korea Mocks China for ‘Dancing to U.S. Tune’
Wall Street Journal
North Korea appeared to lash out at Beijing in a state-media commentary published Thursday, aiming unusually pointed rhetoric at a powerful neighbor that Pyongyang has long relied on for economic and diplomatic support.
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02.22.17Is China Pushing Trump to Talk to North Korea?
New York Times
Now President Xi Jinping of China has essentially said: We have done our part in enforcing sanctions. Over to you, Mr. Trump.
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02.21.17China Is Warning Lotte Group against Letting a Korean Golf Course Become a Missile Defense Site
Quartz
China’s has a new target amid its ongoing economic retaliation against South Korea—the country’s fifth-biggest conglomerate
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02.16.17China Loses a Friend, and Leverage, with North Korean Murder
Bloomberg
The mysterious death of Kim Jong Un’s half-brother removed a potential avenue for China to press the North Korean leader to rein in his nuclear ambitions.
China in the World Podcast
02.08.17
China’s North Korea Calculus under Trump
from Carnegie China
Two weeks into President Trump’s first term, the White House has launched a review of its North Korea policy. Dealing with the threat from Pyongyang’s missile launches and nuclear weapons program is likely to top the administration’s security agenda...
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02.07.17
U.S. Policy Toward China
Asia Society
The Task Force on U.S.-China Policy generated the following report and set of recommendations to assist the 45th U.S. presidential administration in formulating a China strategy that will protect and further U.S. national interests. This report...
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01.25.17China Gives Details of Items Banned from Export to North Korea
Reuters
China released on Wednesday a new, comprehensive list of goods that can not be exported to North Korea, including many “dual use” items that can be used to build weapons of mass destruction.
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01.24.17
U.S.-China Relations Following Trump’s Inauguration, Part II
from Carnegie China
As Donald Trump’s inauguration approaches, uncertainty looms over the future of U.S.-China policy. In Part II of this podcast, Paul Haenle spoke with Chen Dingding, an International Relations professor at Jinan University and founding Director of...
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01.20.17Here’s How China Will Test Trump With North Korean Nukes
Daily Beast
China is demanding South Korea not defend itself from North Korean missiles and nuclear weapons, which Beijing has helped Pyongyang develop
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01.03.17As Trump and North Korea’s Kim Spar, China Poses as the Responsible Actor
Washington Post
President-elect Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un have been trading threats this week, while China poses as the mature, reasonable kid on the block.
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12.29.16Postcard from Dandong: Politics and Pity on the Border of China and North Korea
Economist
The border between the two countries shows how drastically they have grown apart
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11.14.16Unfinished Bridge Reveals Broken State of North Korea’s Alliance with China
Guardian
Two years on from its expected completion, the bridge joining Dandong and Sinuiju remains unfinished: an emblem of an uneasy alliance gone sour
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11.07.16The Coming Clash With China Over North Korea
Washington Post
Could the first foreign crisis of a potential Clinton presidency come not in the Middle East or with Russia, but in northeast Asia?
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10.05.16U.S., China Said to Discuss Choking Off North Korean Energy
Bloomberg
Talks involve restrictions on coal, iron ore and crude oil
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09.29.16How Rocky U.S.-China Relations Benefit North Korea’s Nuclear Missiles
Fortune
Earlier this month, North Korea tested its fifth nuclear device.
China in the World Podcast
09.28.16
North Korea and The South China Sea: What’s Next?
from Carnegie China
Given the increasingly complex security environment in the Asia-Pacific, it is critical for the United States and China to deepen cooperation on promoting regional stability. In this podcast, Paul Haenle and Admiral Gary Roughead, former Chief of...
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09.20.16China, US to Step Up Cooperation to Halt North Korea’s Nuclear Weapons Program
South China Morning Post
China’s premier and Obama make a pledge at the UN
Conversation
09.01.16
What Can We Expect from China at the G20?
On September 4-5, heads of the world’s major economies will meet in the southeastern city of Hangzhou for the G20 summit. The meeting represents “the most significant gathering of world leaders in China’s history,” according to The New York Times...
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08.18.16
Who Is Kim Jong-un?
from New York Review of Books
The pudgy cheeks and flaring hairdo of North Korea’s young ruler Kim Jong-un, his bromance with tattooed and pierced former basketball star Dennis Rodman, his boy-on-a-lark grin at missile firings, combine incongruously with the regime’s pledge to...
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07.06.16US-China Gap on North Korea Policy Widening as Interests Diverge
Associated Press
U.S. President Donald Trump’s hopes for China’s help with restraining North Korea appear to have gone nowhere, with the two sides growing farther apart as their approaches and concerns diverge.
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06.01.16After Failed Missile Test, China Calls for Korean Calm
Reuters
Kim expressed a desire to work hard with China to maintain peace and stability on the peninsula and across northeast Asia.
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05.18.16North Korea Makes Public Its Paranoia over China
Financial Times
Pyongyang’s hatred for Beijing is palpable—and the feeling is mutual.
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05.10.16China's Xi Congratulates North Korea's Kim on New Title
Associated Press
Xi Congratulates Kim Jong Un on being chairman of the ruling Workers' Party of Korea, underscoring traditional ties between the communist neighbors despite recent strains.
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04.28.16China Won't Allow Chaos or War on Korean Peninsula: Xi
Reuters
China would safeguard peace and stability in the South China Sea, meanwhile maintaining its sovereignty and rights there.
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04.12.16China Let 13 North Koreans Defect through Its Border Because They Had "Legitimate" ID
Quartz
The public announcement was a stark departure from its typical response to DPRK defectors.
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04.06.16China Tightens the Trade Screws on North Korea
Associated Press
China has banned most imports of North Korean coal and iron ore, the country's main exports.
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04.05.16China Restricts North Korea Trade over Nuclear Tests
BBC
China is announcing bans on gold and some coal imports and jet fuel exports, in line with UN sanctions.
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03.31.16North Korea Sanctions: Is China Enforcing Them?
CNN
The Chinese say inspections are effective, but CNN couldn't independently verify that.