Xi Says China Will Protect Its Interests in Korean Peninsula

President Xi Jinping said China would prevent a conflict on the Korean Peninsula, a measured response to global leaders who have been pushing his country to play a bigger role in curbing tensions over North Korea’s cooperation with Russian military.

China does not “allow conflict and turmoil to happen on the Korean Peninsula” and it will not “sit idly by when its strategic security and core interests are under threat,” Xi told US President Joe Biden at a meeting on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Lima, Peru.