Article: ASIA: CHINA WORRIES JAPAN WILL JOIN REGIONAL NUCLEAR ARMS RACE

Antoaneta Bezlova
Inter Press Service English News Wire
12-08-2006
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 engage ...

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