A Testing Ground for China's Power, Prosperity and Preferences: China's Post-Cold-War Relations with the Korean Peninsula

Strategic divergence between China and the United States complicates, rather than benefits, the inter-Korean reconciliation process, which in turn could accentuate, and at a minimum has increased uncertainty over a host of regional issues as well. It is thus likely that profound peninsular and regional uncertainty would intensify and diversify hedging strategies by all actors, as the recent surge in diplomatic activities has amply shown.