Can Xi’s Rising Power Head Off War on the Korean Peninsula?

For this last week of 2017, we asked our experts to predict what they see for the year ahead. CIA veteran and Asia hand Amb. Joseph DeTrani spoke about what Beijing could do to check the rising threat from North Korea, including implementing U.N. sanctions that Pyongyang has called an “act of war.”

On China’s implementation of North Korea sanctions:

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