07
Jun
Beijing (Rajeev Sharma): Chinese President Xi Jinping is scheduled to arrive in North Korea on Monday for a critical two-day state visit, marking his first trip to the isolated nation in nearly seven years. The diplomatic mission provides North Korean leader Kim Jong Un with a prominent international stage to display an increasingly assertive foreign policy, heavily anchored by a strategic realignment with his country’s traditional Cold War benefactors. As North Korea’s primary economic lifeline, Beijing is widely expected to utilize the summit to re-establish its traditional influence over Pyongyang. This strategic pivot comes at a time when the North…