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[–] DankZedong@lemmygrad.ml 60 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (16 children)

Why exactly was China sanctioning the DPRK?

Also, good for them. The DPRK is a country of enormous potential ideology wise, people wise and resources wise.

[–] afellowkid@lemmygrad.ml 38 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't recall the exact details as I believe it was the usual UN demands about DPRK's missile launches, but basically China went along with a round of security council sanctions adopted in 2017, which meant that petroleum exports become more restricted and thousands of people from DPRK who were working in China had to go home and a bunch of joint ventures were forced to shut down as well. However, in 2022, China and Russia vetoed a new round of US-sponsored UN sanctions on DPRK, and recommended lifting some of the earlier sanctions, as they felt the US had failed to engage in its end of diplomacy with DPRK, and therefore the earlier sanctions should be reduced and no further ones should be imposed.

[–] AOCapitulator@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

why haven't they vetoed the USs veto of lifting sanctions on cuba that everyone votes for every year for the last 40 years or whatever?

[–] uralsolo@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago

IIRC The UN security council's permanent members operate on an "all or nothing" basis, so if you can't get the US, UK, France, China, and Russia to all agree you can't do anything.

[–] afellowkid@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Unfortunately I don't know enough about that to speak on it

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