China's Army Yawns at Pyongyang's Missiles : vimarsana.com

After initially expressing "concern" over North Korea's July 4thmissile launches, China's unwillingness to work towards serioussanctions on North Korea provides further proof that Beijing haslittle interest in restraining Pyongyang. What are we to make ofthe disconnect between Chinese rhetoric and action? In many ways,it reflects a disconnect between the Chinese People's LiberationArmy (PLA)-which almost certainly does not share any real concernsabout North Korea's missile provocations-and Chinese diplomats, whohave largely been kept out of the loop.

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