中国 move puts onus on US in N. Korea 行き詰まり: 専門家s

China's halting of coal imports from North Korea until the end of this year follows Pyongyang's recent weapons tests

中国's 停止(させる)ing of coal 輸入するs from North Korea until the end of this year follows Pyongyang's 最近の 武器s 実験(する)s

中国´s snap 決定/判定勝ち(する) to 停止(させる) North Korean coal 輸入するs -- a 重要な 経済的な lifeline for Pyongyang -- has a broader 動機 目的(とする)d at 形態/調整ing Donald Trump's as yet undefined 政策 に向かって the North's rogue 核の 武器 programme, 専門家s say.

North Korea 反抗するd the world a week ago with a ミサイル 実験(する) and is 嫌疑者,容疑者/疑うd of orchestrating the 素晴らしい 暗殺 a day later of 最高の leader Kim Jong-Un's half-brother in Malaysia, 挑発的な 行為/法令/行動するs that followed a 核の 実験(する) in September.

中国 is often the 的 of US 批評 for not doing enough to rein in its irascible 隣人.

But 分析家s said 中国's 禁止(する) on North Korean coal 輸入するs for the 残り/休憩(する) of this year could be an 試みる/企てる by Beijing to 信管を取り除く such 批評s while 軽く押す/注意を引くing North Korea and the 部隊d 明言する/公表するs toward 交渉s.

China is said to fear any policy that destabilises North Korea and sends a flood of refugees across their border

中国 is said to 恐れる any 政策 that destabilises North Korea and sends a flood of 難民s across their 国境

"If 中国 is squeezing North Korea, it is for one 目的 and one 目的 only: to 申し込む/申し出 a 協同組合 gesture to the 後継の Trump 行政 in return for an 率先 on 交渉s," Stephan Haggard, of the Peterson 学校/設ける for International 経済的なs, wrote in a blog 地位,任命する.

Under the Obama 行政, Washington 追求するd a 政策 of "戦略の patience" toward North Korea in hopes that 許可/制裁s would bring Pyongyang to heel and 軍隊 it to abandon its 核兵器s.

The 後継の Trump 行政 has stepped up the rhetoric, with the US leader 説 after the February 12 ミサイル 開始する,打ち上げる that Pyongyang was a "big, big problem" and would be dealt with "very 堅固に".

- Onus on Trump -

中国 株 US 関心s about Pyongyang 得るing a 核の 武器, but prefers 交渉s to 許可/制裁s, which it 恐れるs could destabilise North Korea and send a flood of 難民s across their 株d 国境.

"中国´s main goal in making this move is to put the onus 支援する on Washington, fair and square to solve this problem," said Peter Hayes, director of the Nautilus 学校/設ける.

"In 影響 they are 説 to the US: 承認する, we did what you 手配中の,お尋ね者, we lit a 解雇する/砲火/射撃 under their feet. What are you going to do to solve the DPRK problem now?" he 追加するd, using the acronym for North Korea's 公式の/役人 指名する.

The UN 安全 会議 has 課すd six 始める,決めるs of 許可/制裁s since Pyongyang first 実験(する)d an 原子の 装置 in 2006.

But North Korea has continued to thumb its nose at the world with a 一連の ミサイル 開始する,打ち上げるs over the years and two 核の 実験(する)s in 2016 alone.

Beijing 伝統的に 確実にするs that UN 許可/制裁s against Pyongyang 含む 人道的な 控除s, and had continued to 購入(する) 抱擁する 量s of North Korean coal -- over $168 million 価値(がある) in December alone.

It has long resisted calls by Washington to use its 経済的な てこ入れ/借入資本 to punish North Korea for its 核の programme, arguing it has much いっそう少なく 影響(力) on its 予測できない 隣人 than the US thinks.

"Very few Chinese think that 苦痛 is the way to 影響(力) North Korea," said John Delury, an 専門家 on Sino-North Korean relations at ソウル's Yonsei University.

- 'Can't dally' -

From Beijing's 視野, solving the problem will 要求する Washington to 交渉する with North Korea, whether 直接/まっすぐに or as part of a larger group.

That was a 堅い sell for the Obama 行政, which 主張するd that a 反抗的な Pyongyang take 重要な steps に向かって denuclearisation before it would consider 会談.

While Trump has criticised Beijing for not doing enough to 抑制(する) the North's behaviour, the coal 決定/判定勝ち(する) 示唆するs 中国 "must have a sense that 交渉 is under real consideration", Delury said.

中国 may have 圧力(をかける)d the 事例/患者 for 会談 when Chinese 外務大臣 Wang Yi met his American 相当するもの Rex Tillerson on Friday -- just a day before the coal 禁止(する) was 発表するd -- and discussed North Korea.

中国 may be banking on the iconoclastic Trump's ability to shake up US 政策 toward the reclusive North.

Trump "wants to change his 前任者's 政策 ... and has the will to solve the problem, rather than 簡単に ignore North Korea's 願望(する)" for 会談, Lu Chao, a 研究 fellow at the Liaoning 学院 of Social Sciences told Chinese newspaper the 全世界の Times.

But if Trump hopes to 行為/法令/行動する on the 開始 中国 has given him, he "can't dally", Delury said.

He "has to 人物/姿/数字 out a way to move 今後 proactively with North Korea," he said. "You can't just sit and wait. The 状況/情勢 will get worse."

Waiting for the 許可/制裁s to bite, he said, "would be a big mistake. Because the North Koreans will just 押し進める 権利 through it".

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