Knights Templar
on December 28, 2024 319 views
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The road from comrades-in-arms to allies is now full of cracks.
We are talking about North Korea and China.
In October 1950, just one year after the end of the Chinese civil war, Mao Zedong sent the first Chinese troops to fight in the Korean War.
Between 180,000 and 400,000 of Chairman Mao's soldiers would die in the conflict, including his own son.
But Mao reportedly said that it was important to defend North Korea in that war because “without lips, teeth are cold”.
This Chinese idiom has been used to describe the close relationship between China and North Korea for more than seven decades.
China sees North Korea as a strategic security buffer in the region.
North Korea, in turn, relies on its superpower neighbor for economic, political and military support.
But that relationship is now under strain because of another war that has drawn the Communist-origin countries into a joint war.
North Korea's involvement of 11,000 troops in the Ukrainian war has infuriated the Beijing government.
How should China view North Korea sending troops to the Russian-Ukrainian battlefield?
Why is China angry about this alliance?
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