No other choice.
If they don't, war on a horrific scale will come to them again, and despite all the semi-educated idiot opinions, a simple glance at the globe displays the futility of that to their own best interests.
But then again, China seems unable to learn from history.
Odd, isn't it?
I agree with your traditional take on this.
I would suggest China is a realist here. They know North Korea is a wing nut enterprise. There’s only so much they can do.
You’ve got a nuclear state. It’s run by wing-nut nut-jobs. What’s China going to do, risk it’s own provinces?
This is a mess. It’s a colossal international melt-down....