Significant advances in China’s military capabilities have attracted global attention in recent years, with the country now boasting more naval combat ships than even the U.S. 

The growing power of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) is indeed likely to make it a more formidable adversary for the U.S. military in the coming years, and this has raised questions about what role China might play in a future inter-Korean conflict, including the possibility of direct military intervention.

It remains to be seen whether relations between Washington and Beijing will ever get so