[Sasparilla]

...China can’t say this is not what they wanted....

Not to mention state of the art arms, ammunition, Food uniforms, armored vehicles, fuel, and other massive amounts of military needs supplied to the NORKS.

[Garth Tater]

China can’t say this is not what they wanted

It's exactly what they have always wanted. Without China's support North Korea would quickly collapse and this gives China veto power over everything of consequence done there. They use that control to advance China's interests.

But things are changing - North Korea is on the verge of having a workable nuke/missile system that not only threatens S.Korea, Japan and us, it threatens China. And they don't like that. But they haven't figured out what to do about it yet. Right now it looks like they are leaning towards having us pay them to allow us to solve the lil Kim problem for them.