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Originally Posted by ChainLegacy
I don't even understand the buffer argument. NK doesn't seem like a very good ally and would probably be benefiting far more from the partnership than the Chinese do. I also don't see why a unified, pro-US Korea puts China on edge... I have trouble envisioning such a scenario somehow hurting Chinese supremacy/influence in any truly appreciable manner.
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It's simple geopolitics. Just like the Soviets had the Warsaw Pact to put some distance between Moscow and their adversaries (US&Allies), China too does not like to have a major pro-US nation right on its border. The same for the US really, ala the Cuban crisis.
China would much rather the US having to go through N.Korea first before getting inside China proper in an invasion, rather than getting directly inside China from the start.