Posts Tagged ‘People’s Daily’
Diplomatic Review, Q1 2026: China’s Foreign Minister Returns to Pyongyang
Wang Yi made his first visit to the DPRK in nearly six years following the resumption of train and flight services connecting the capitals of China and North Korea .
Diplomatic Review, Nov 2025: Remembering Kim Yong-nam
Death of DPRK’s longest-serving, senior government official follows decades of high-level diplomacy with Chinese leaders from Mao to Xi Jinping.
China’s Soft Power Strategy and the DPRK
Are the Chinese really “ahead of the game” when it comes to their North Korea policy, or is this long-held assumption no longer valid? Adam Cathcart and Franz Bleeker examine Chinese “soft power” over North Korea from the Chinese perspective.
Don’t Fear the Tiger: Huanqiu Shibao, Chinese Delegations, and Netizen Responses to the North Korean Rocket
China’s state media is urging calm as regards the North Korean rocket launch — or is it? Analysis/translation by Adam Cathcart and Roger Cavazos.
Between Benign Neglect and Active Deportation: Chinese Policy on North Korean Refugees
Beijing’s role as a regional and international channel for inter-Korean relations has its benefits, and highlights the PRC’s centrality and prestige. At other times, however, that same centrality is a quagmire, as with the refugee issue. How does the CCP regard the refugees, and how has the relevant policy shifted, if at all? What role […]





