The war between Russia and Ukraine has reached dimensions that will shake the dynamics in the Pacific. The fact that North Korea has deployed nearly 12,000 troops to the war fronts for Russia, 1,500 of them are special forces personnel, and nearly 8,000 Pyongyang troops have already participated in clashes in Kursk has begun to seriously worry China. If the war spreads fully to the Pacific, it could directly threaten the security of Northeast Asia. And this would not sit well with China, which is competing with the US in the global economic competition arena. This is why China is preparing strategic moves to avert the growing threat between Russia and North Korea, seeking to distance Pyongyang’s leader Kim Jong-Un from Vladimr Putin, the head of the Kremlin. So what can China do, what are the Beijing government’s plans? Let’s take a deeper look at how the balance between these three countries has shifted following North Korea’s deployment of troops to the Ukrainian front for Russia, and what China is doing to prevent this.
