Given the CCP’s fear of warlordism – which played a key role in China’s dismemberment after the fall of the Qing Dynasty in 1911 – this imbalance in favor of Shenyang is odd. The lack of a countervailing ground force in northern China makes it vulnerable to a possible coup by Shenyang, which has already taken advantage of its influence on the North Korean regime to put pressure on China’s leaders.
中共害怕军阀——这是1911年清朝覆灭后中国陷入分裂的关键原因——如此偏向沈阳令人奇怪。在北方没有用于制衡的地面部队意味着中国很容易受到沈阳军事政变的威胁，而沈阳也在利用其对朝鲜政权的影响对中国领导层施压。