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Article: ASIA: CHINA WORRIES JAPAN WILL JOIN REGIONAL NUCLEAR ARMS RACE.
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- Interpress Service
- Article date:
- December 8, 2006
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by Antoaneta Bezlova
BEIJING, Dec. 8, 2006 (IPS/GIN) -- China's concerns about a nuclear arms race in East Asia are beginning to override Beijing's long-term worry of seeing a collapsed state on its border, according to analysts and diplomats here.
Despite Pyongyang's nuclear brinkmanship of recent years, China has been loath to push its long-term ally and neighbor too hard for fears it might precipitate a regime collapse and chaos that would prompt U.S. intervention.
But North Korea's nuclear test in October has focused China's fears on the chilling possibility of a full-scale nuclear arms race on the Korean peninsula and forced Beijing to ...