Asian-Pacific security
A divided Korean Peninsula serves China’s strategic calculation in another way too—Beijing’s security elites consider the U.S. as China’s ultimate adversary and it is believed that one of the easiest paths to enter China’s strategic depth is through the Korean Peninsula where there are 28 thousand U.S. troops on the ground, with powerful re-enforcement from nearby Okinawa and Guam, and the Japanese mainland. In other words, North Korea is China’s strategic buffer state that functions as a shield as well as a client.
A divided Korean Peninsula serves China’s strategic calculation in another way too—Beijing’s security elites consider the U.S. as China’s ultimate adversary and it is believed that one of the easiest paths to enter China’s strategic depth is through the Korean Peninsula where there are 28 thousand U.S. troops on the ground, with powerful re-enforcement from nearby Okinawa and Guam, and the Japanese mainland. In other words, North Korea is China’s strategic buffer state that functions as a shield as well as a client.
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