China can destroy our economy with the stroke of a pen. They are the only thing propping up our phony economy by trading their goods to us for worthless dollars. In this sense they own us at least for now and will have a very large say in what happens with NK.
My thinking is China is vulnerable, too. If the house of cards collapses, they are in for a big fall. I am reminded of the saying “If you owe the bank thousands, they own you. If you owe the bank millions, you own them” Thanks.
It’s true the US owes China trillions...but that can work the other way too...because they want to get paid don’t they? and they surely want to cotinue “selling” goods over here.... So that debt can be used as a bargaining tool and I don’t think they will interrupt the trade with us...at least how things stand now.
Still the question remains how the parties will bargain and come to some aggreement, if even possible, that might finally address the N.Korean sad state of affairs, and this with the fewest casualties if someone does stike..