CDZ What will China do if the U.S. and N. Korea go to war?

[usmbguest5318]

What will China do if the U.S. and N. Korea go to war?

Most likely, and if at all possible, stay out of it. They have nothing to gain by entering it.

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"It is hard to say how China would assist North Korea militarily in case of war, since North Korea is developing nuclear weapons, an act that might have already breached the treaty between the two nations," said retired Chinese naval colonel Li Jie.

China will find a new way to achieve the primary thing it wants and obtains from North Korea: a physical buffer zone between Westernized culture and Western military forces.

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Allowing the DPRK to collapse and expanding the size of the demilitarized zone and/or moving it to the north end of the the DPRK would effectively enough achieve that.

If America does a preemptive strike on North Korea then expect Russia, Iran and China to back North Korea and a possible World War...

That benefits none of the world's key economic or political players.

• A conventional war involving the world would be nothing but another war of attrition a la WWI and a nuclear one is of no value to anyone.
• The major powers could conceivably play out a war or proxy on the Korean peninsula, but to what end? The nation that benefits in that scenario is Iran, which has very little to lose in the way of international trade, and neither Russia nor China are keen to seen those crazies rise above their "pawn status" in actual prominence.
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China just doesn't want to find itself sharing a land border with a strong U.S./Western ally, but it has no desire to disrupt its cash flows by making a clear enemy out of nations/citizens that have the requisite income to buy their exports.

 

[Meathead]

China would not go to all-out war, but occupy a large swath of the sparsely populated border region as a security buffer and to prevent the reunification of all Korean lands. A land grab by any other name.

 

[jwoodie]

China will register a protest with the UN and then close its border with NK to keep refugees out & blame U.S.

Nothing more- China needs trade with U.S. to keep its economy afloat.

 

[jwoodie]

China would not go to all-out war, but occupy a large swath of the sparsely populated border region as a security buffer and to prevent the reunification of all Korean lands. A land grab by any other name.

Would that be a bad thing?