Just hours before what was certainly going to be a belligerent G7 meeting, Chinese authorities released some of the content of a phone call China’s President Xi Jinping had last week with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. In the call, Xi said that the two sides should “strengthen strategic communication,” given the heightened tensions on the Korean Peninsula.
In a recent message to Kim, Xi stressed that the “traditional friendship” between China and North Korea had “weathered the trials of the changed international situation for a long time, constantly maintained the trend of its development, and got stronger with the passage of time.”
