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bym.ducharme ( 1082683 ) writes:
Only as long as it takes to convince China that they need our purchasing power more than they need to protect the twerps in Pyongyang.
byoh_my_080980980 ( 773867 ) writes:
China knows that....allies is a stretch...China would jettison N Korea in a heart beat if they could.
bynitehawk214 ( 222219 ) writes:
China knows that....allies is a stretch...China would jettison N Korea in a heart beat if they could.
Right, China needs the USA for economic strength. However, if North Korea was attacked, or some other disaster happened there; China would be inundated with millions of Korean refugees, which would also hurt China's economy.
byshadowrat ( 1069614 ) writes:
would china really notice a million more people?
byXest ( 935314 ) writes:
Probably not. Even if literally the entire population of North Korea fled to China leaving Kim Jong Un sat on his potty crying for a diaper all by himself that'd be less than a 1.9% population increase, or roughly the same increase China saw naturally in the 2 years between 2009 and 2012, or the US saw in the 6 years between 2006 and 2012.
Of course, it's different when that kind of migration happens overnight, but when you consider that nowhere near all of them will actually flee, that many will flee to Japan, South Korea etc. instead, that many of them will probably die en-route or of starvation (which would be tragic, but likely) given that they're on the brink of that anyway, and that the Chinese would hold many more off at the border, then I think it would have a fairly negligible impact in practice quite frankly.
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