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Originally Posted by TylerSVT
Big problem you havent looked at is how globalized our world is now. Chinese foreign investment into American companies is very very large. How do you sever ties with that sort of thing? Where do we get all our clothes and cheap products?
I think by that account every major power country tries to avoid wars because they will only hurt themselves in the long run. We need them and they need us. No country is completely independent anymore.
I agree China would step in and remove power from NK only after a joint attack by SK and United states.
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Thats why I see my first and second options as more likely and more image positive for China.
By toppling the North Korean leadership for cause they can also have video of mass food deliveries into NK on the nightly news. China comes out a winner.
By planting peace keepers with or without the UN, the Chinese can state that they're doing their international duty by stopping a war. Again China wins on the international stage.
On the third and most unlikely option, China can declare that a U.S. lead invasion of NK past a certain border point is a serious concern to their national security, and that China is greatly concerned about U.S. naval and air power, and they're doing this strictly as a defensive protocal. Basically cross this line and all bets are off. The Chinese hope would be that the American's would back down from pushing all the way through NK to secure a regime change. If the American's back down, China wins a huge chunk of prestige, if the American's don't back down then China does become a victim.