Rupert Mitchell
View from the Peak expert guest, Bonnie Glaser, commenting on China's likely to response to an attack on North Korea by the US. Bottom line: It depends who moves first
http://www.chinafile.com/conversation/what-will-china-do-if-us-attacks-north-korea
Editor
Can Washington and Beijing reach an agreement for regime change? Only if a Beijing puppet government is installed and this creates a whole new set of head aches
Editor
China will never want to escalate a war on the peninsula. Bonnie's scenarios are valid and the point she makes that the 1961 China-NK Mutual Aid and Cooperation Treaty, while binding on the surface, could readily be ignored by the Chinese, if it doesn't suit their best interest, is compelling.
