A Blast from the Past: Shaping the Moscow–Beijing–Pyongyang Axis in 2023

The Beijing–Pyongyang–Moscow triangle is far from being a new invention. An inherent problem with such a political construct is that each side is pursuing its own ambitions at the expense of others, making it fragile from within. The recent geopolitical reality has summoned the triangle back from the past of the Cold War when it was first formed. But even if the emerging alliance appears to be stable from the outside, the three parties’ different aims and non-cooperative behaviour result in fragility of this construct as it was years ago.