Faculty Fellow Josh Eisenman writes about US politicians and their approach to Asian powers in The Hill. More specifically, US politicians continue to conserve the irrational idea that the US strategy toward North Korea should be based on Chinese intervention. Washington believes that Beijing can help resolve the long-running nuclear crisis in the Korean Peninsula. Yet, this idea is baseless and unreliable.
"History has shown that a U.S. policy that relies on Chinese pressure on North Korea will fail, and that progress toward peace can only be achieved despite Beijing’s involvement, not because of it."