According to the Global Times news on March 17, South Korea's Lotte Group announced that it will close its regional headquarters in China in the near future, the business giant that entered the Chinese market in 1994, in the past three decades in the Chinese market has achieved great success, but with a series of deadly operations by the South Korean government, Lotte Group's business activities in China have been resisted and paralyzed due to the "THAAD entering Korea" Wentu.
A source from Lotte Group said that they had made a decision to formally close the Chinese headquarters at the end of last year and planned to complete the process in the first half of this year, but he also said that the closure of the Chinese headquarters did not mean that the Lotte brand completely bid farewell to the Chinese market, and projects in China such as Lotte Chemical would continue to advance. However, considering that Yoon Seok-yue has been elected president of South Korea, the new South Korean government is afraid that there will be many riots in the future, and now it seems that the situation facing Lotte Group is not optimistic.
Because the incoming South Korean president Yoon Seok-wook is an irrational and extremely crazy person with political tendencies, he immediately said after his election that "South Korea will not send envoys to China, Russia, Japan and other neighboring countries, but will only send envoys to the United States and the European Union", and his statement basically recognized the bottomless pro-US position of the current government.
To know that the past South Korean governments based on their special geographical location, despite the existence of the so-called "Rok-US alliance", but the South Korean government at least does not dare to offend China, former President Park Geun-hye when he was on the stage to let the United States deploy THAAD, which is the most radical step in the South Korean government's pro-US diplomacy in recent decades.
Now that Yoon Seok-yue is about to come to power, the diplomatic relations between China, Russia, and Japan, three important neighbors around South Korea, seem to be completely out of his radar, not only that, Yoon Seok-yue even ran to hold the "thigh" of the European Union, clearly posing a bottomless pro-Western posture, which actually attracted opposition in South Korea, and many South Korean politicians and people are well aware of the importance of South Korea's stable relations with its neighbors.
In the face of doubts, Yin Xiyue responded that "considering Russia's invasion of Ukraine, he decided not to send special envoys to Russia, and regarding the diplomatic relations between China and Japan, because there were many unresolved issues in the history of exchanges between the two sides in the past, there are many issues that need to be negotiated after the new government comes to power, and there is no need to rush to send special envoys." Of course, his actual meaning is that South Korea-China relations and South Korea-Japan relations should give way to South Korea-U.S. relations.
Former Presidents Moon Jae-in, Park Geun-hye, and Lee Myung-bak all sent envoys to China and the United States at the same time as soon as they came to power to show South Korea's relatively independent and balanced diplomatic strategic position; and Yoon Seok-yue almost wrote the five words "I am a pro-AMERICAN faction" on his face, thinking of some things that happened before, which inevitably makes people worried about the prospects of the security situation on the peninsula!
Will Yoon Seok-wook go against the grain and completely implement the THAAD deployment plan that Park Geun-hye did not implement that year? Because during the election period, Yin Xiyue made a promise, claiming that after being elected, he would consider overturning the "three noes" commitment and deploying THAAD! However, I must point out that this may be secondary, after all, at the end of last year, the US government revealed a plan to expand the US military in South Korea, which would permanently deploy a land aviation unit and an "artillery unit" in South Korea.
Artillery, in a narrow sense, is equipped with artillery, but in a broad sense, the units of the armies equipped with ballistic missiles are also artillery, but only "strategic artillery", which happened to be the time when the United States was preparing to deploy the first unit equipped with hypersonic ballistic missiles in Europe, and for the artillery units they planned to deploy in South Korea, the US Department of Defense did not disclose what artillery it was.
To a certain extent, this proves that the United States has a plan, at least the intention to deploy ballistic missiles and nuclear weapons in South Korea, and to make them a long-term strategic goal; so the question is not only whether Yin Xiyue will move the "THAAD" out of the "THAAD" in the past few years in power, but whether he will allow the US military in South Korea to deploy ballistic missiles and nuclear weapons!
If this is the case, the situation on the peninsula, which is generally stable, may usher in the most dangerous moment in recent decades! The "Peninsula issue" is as important as the "Japan rearmament issue" and the "Taiwan issue," and is known as an important issue on the three major political foundations of Sino-US relations.
China and Russia will never tolerate such behavior by the United States, and after all, if the US military in the ROK has nuclear weapons, then peace in Northeast Asia will be impossible to talk about! The US all-out attack on three major issues this year is tantamount to overturning the table between China and the United States and the current East Asian order! On this side of the peninsula, if the actions of Yoon Seok-yue, a bottomless pro-American faction, are not stopped, then he will single-handedly pull the entire country of South Korea into the abyss of war.