If China can't effectively police their own fly-by-night domestic firms from doing by things like selling industrial salts as fake table salt, how likely is it they'll be able to shut down NK oriented firms, or even be aggressively inclined to investigate and enforce this order? That is, perhaps this is mostly for show to comply on paper with UN resolutions.
In this case, these NK firms will certainly be a topic of focus, and likely remain so for quite a while.
>Remember Johnny, if no one sees it, its like it never even happened.
At the same time, I think it's not far-fetched that China would flex its muscle against the US if we escalate this conflict.
I don't think so. I think they would actually just let NK be nuked and maybe try to capture it afterwards.
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This leaves aside the question of how real these sanctions are, and how much China will keep helping NK behind the scenes.
It’s a weird situation where basically everyone hates NK (I imagine China would be more happy if that was just more of their normal territory) but everyone is terrified of what happens when the NK State dissolves.
SK wants to reunite but that would have to be done slowly to avoid the same issues China is afraid of (ignoring any ‘diehards’ causing terrorism or just unrest).
Of course China and SK could arm up at the borders and start shooting people but... that’s not really an improvement is it.