China Says No Information on US-North Korea Summit Contacts

Beijing's non-answer is itself the signal: when asked directly about US-North Korea contacts and a prolonged North Korean internet outage, the spokesperson declined to confirm or deny involvement. That silence matters because China is the North's most consequential neighbor and any diplomatic channel would almost certainly pass through it, so the absence of comment leaves the region's back-channel diplomacy opaque. For markets, the takeaway is that information asymmetry around the peninsula remains high, and the open question is whether this reticence precedes something substantive or simply reflects routine briefing caution.