Yet just waiting for North Korea to collapse is a regime-change strategy by default – and the cost of a chaotic or violent collapse could be frighteningly high. Indeed, the fear of this cost is what keeps China so passive where its North Korean client is concerned.
因此，等待和观望策略可能会继续。但等待朝鲜政权崩溃只是默认情况下的政权更迭策略——混乱或暴力崩溃的代价可能高得让人承受不起。事实上，正是对上述代价的恐惧让中国在朝鲜问题上采取如此被动的态度。