People had been saying privately, ‘We’ll see what we do about Ukraine, we’ll see what we do about China.’ But now the world is upside down and they don’t yet know what to do.”Eyes on BeijingThere are signs that European countries may decide the answer is to move closer to China,

With Kim’s escalating rhetoric about war with the South and the West, China needs its leverage to preserve peace in its backyard and cannot afford to be seen alienating its only treaty ally. This places China in a serious bind without any real options except to hope that the EU and U.