China has banned exports of items with potential military applications to North Korea, suggesting Beijing is frustrated with Pyongyang over its nuclear programme.
The Chinese commerce ministry published this week a 236-page list of “dual-use” equipment, chemicals and technologies that it said could be used to build “weapons of mass destruction”. It said China was implementing UN Security Council resolutions, without providing any more detail.
“I think it is a change,” said Paul Haenle, director of the Carnegie-Tsinghua Center, a think-tank in Beijing. “We are beginning to see the start of a fairly significant shift in Chinese policy.”
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