‘China Can’t Live With a Unified Korea With US Potentially on Their Doorstep’
SputnikNews.com
06.04.2017
Beijing does not want Seoul and Pyongyang to unite on South Korea’s terms which would likely lead to greater American military presence close to China’s borders, senior vice president for research and director of the Washington office at the National Bureau of Asian Research Roy Kamphausen told Radio Sputnik.
China “wants things to stay the way they are,” he said.
>In Kamphausen’s view, Chinese leadership would like to see “gradual slow improvement, gradual opening, economic reform, even if at the most basic level. That’s what they want to see happening in the North because sudden dramatic change very likely means that the unification would occur on South Korean terms. This is what China cannot live with – a unified Korean peninsula with the US These comments came ahead of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s official visit to the United States during which he will meet with President Donald Trump potentially on their doorstep.“
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