Beijing's Long Game: How China's Support for North Korea's Nuclear Program Serves Its Own Interests. For years, the international community has been puzzled by China's ambiguous stance on North Korea's nuclear ambitions. While Beijing has repeatedly called for Pyongyang to denuclearize, it has also been accused of providing crucial support to the regime's nuclear program. A new analysis suggests that this seeming paradox is not a mistake, but rather a deliberate strategy by China to maintain its influence over Washington. By backing North Korea's nuclear program, China gains leverage over the United States, allowing it to play a key role in any negotiations or diplomatic efforts to resolve the crisis on its own terms. As tensions continue to simmer on the Korean Peninsula, the true extent of China's involvement in North Korea's nuclear program is set to shed new light on the complex dynamics at play.
China has been supporting the North Korean nuclear program all along because that program gives it leverage over Washington.
