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IndeanCondortoday at 8:14 PM1 replyview on HN

The Chinese haven't shared nuclear tech with the DPRK, an explicit PRC ally, whose advancements are instead based on Russian designs. PRC leadership are quite miffed with the North Koreans and view proliferation there as pushing RoK to manufacture weapons as well.

The PRC has been hard against nuclear proliferation as a policy over decades, it is highly compliant with IAEA inspection norms, despite the NPT not making it mandatory to be under those inspections. This policy is not something the US has in the past or will in the future engender into it through force.


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jawigginstoday at 8:19 PM

Just because they haven't done something in the past doesn't mean they won't in the future. China has been providing material support to Iran both in terms of intel and military hardward, so it's not outlandish to be monitoring and planning for it to continue happening into the future.

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