Beijing sources have stated that North Korea’s biggest nuclear test which was conducted last week less than 50 miles from the Chinese border, has sent tremors through homes and schools in China’s northeast, but hours later, there was no mention of the test on China’s state-run evening television news, watched by hundreds of millions of viewers.
It was stated that although North Korea remains nearly 100% dependent on China for oil and food, Chinese analysts say Beijing will not modify its allegiance to North Korea or pressure the country to curtail its drive for a full-fledged nuclear arsenal, as the United States keeps requesting.
Meanwhile Shi Yinhong, a professor of international relations at Renmin University in Beijing has told “China is closer to North Korea than the United States”, but china sees living with a Communist has ruled nuclear armed state on its border as preferable to the chaos of its collapse.
Cheng Xiaohe, an assistant professor of international relations at Renmin University has told China is strongly opposed to North Korea’s nuclear weapons but at the same time opposes the defense system in South Korea and it is not clear which situation the Chinese leadership is more agitated about.
