What Xi Wants in Pyongyang This Week? | The Capital Cable #135

00:00 Cold Open
06:06 Xi to Visit Pyongyang
08:51 Reading the Trump–Xi Summit on North Korea
13:34 China’s “Middle School Dance” Diplomacy
16:29 What Beijing Wants on the Peninsula
23:56 Three Drivers: Russia, Japan, and Korea
28:48 A Trump–Kim Meeting, the 2+2, and Wonsan
31:18 Downside Risks and China’s Lost Leverage
39:28 Pulling Pyongyang from Moscow, and Closing

As Xi Jinping prepares for his first trip to Pyongyang in nearly seven years, the central question is what Beijing actually wants from Kim Jong-un. Xi and Kim are meeting on June 8-9 for a state visit. The May Trump-Xi summit offered hints about China's position on denuclearization, but Beijing's real leverage over Pyongyang and Xi's patience with a partner who keeps creating problems for him remains far less clear.

In this episode of The Capital Cable, host Mark Lippert is joined by Victor Cha, Oriana Skylar Mastro, and Edgard Kagan to unpack it: how much sway Beijing holds over Kim, how China balances its desire for stability on the peninsula against Moscow's growing pull, and what the whole picture means for U.S. strategy in Asia.

Reading materials:
- Strategic Clarity: Reassessing the Value of China to Korea by Victor Cha and Yesun Kim, https://www.csis.org/analysis/strategic-clarity-reassessing-value-china-korea
- Previewing Xi Jinping’s Visit to North Korea | State of Play by Sydney Seiler, https://www.csis.org/analysis/previewing-xi-jinpings-visit-north-korea-state-play

Other CSIS podcasts
- State of Play with Dr. Thomas Christensen, Amb. Edgard Kagan, Dr. Victor Cha, moderated by Will Todman: https://youtu.be/u_P8OnPobhU
- Pekingology with Adam Farrar and Henrietta Levin: https://youtu.be/qRW-5BXQYBU

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