China’s policy toward the Korean Peninsula can be largely characterized as being to maintain “stable status quo”, and this has been a constant feature since the founding of the PRC in 1949. Even when China turned to the “Far Left” and encouraged revolutions in the Third World in the early 1960s, it did not however encourage North Korea to attack the South. Nevertheless, the reasons and objectives behind China’s foreign policy towards the Korean Peninsula to keep the “status quo”differed at different times. These differences in the same policy have been overlooked. Therefore, this paper attempts to highlight the different reasons that led to the PRC to maintain the same policy. Through a scrutiny of the Sino-North Korean and Sino-South Korean relationships, juxtaposing side by side a from historical perspective, this article will provide useful clues in better understanding China’s policy towards the Korean Peninsula and elucidate the surrounding international political context.
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