Xi Jinping first visited North Korea in 2019. At the time, China backed international efforts aimed at curbing Kim Jong Un’s atomic ambitions. Since then North Korea is thought to have doubled its number of nuclear warheads. But when China’s leader returned to Pyongyang earlier this month, denuclearisation was off the agenda. What’s behind China’s silence? And what does it mean for regional security?
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