South Korea's president-elect Yoon Seok-yue said that he is willing to build a comprehensive strategic alliance with the United States, does this mean that in the future, South Korea will no longer engage in vague strategies between China and the United States as before, but should clearly favor the United States?
Yoon Seok-wook was able to take over the presidency of South Korea on May 10. But in the past few days, he hastily sent his own people to the White House, and also brought a handwritten letter to US President Biden.
In doing so, Yin Xiyue is actually in line with his long-standing diplomatic thinking. Because Yin Xiyue is very clear, he is more pro-American. Although he ended his campaign and won the next presidential campaign, his stance and attitude toward China were also milder. But we believe that things in his bones will not change much, and he is still more inclined to the United States.
Sure enough, after the team sent by Yoon Seok-yue arrived at the White House, he said that South Korea was very hopeful that it would join the US-Japan-India-Australia quadrilateral dialogue system in the future, and also hoped to join the Indo-Pacific economic framework.
In fact, in other words, South Korea has once again shown its loyalty to build a more comprehensive and deepening comprehensive strategic alliance with the United States. Before that, after Yin Xiyue announced that he had won the election, only 5 hours later, he couldn't wait to talk to Biden on the phone and expressed his loyalty with actions.
We know that the U.S.-RoK relationship is also based on the so-called convergence of democratic values. So for South Korea, the sense of security in the military depends on the United States. But in fact, some of South Korea's economic benefits are inseparable from China.
Trade between South Korea and China is now more than $300 billion. South Korea's economic and trade dependence on China is as high as 23.9%. Therefore, if in terms of diplomacy, Yoon Seok-yue leads South Korea to blindly pro-US and hurt relations with China, then for South Korea, I am afraid that in the future economic and trade aspects, there will be a weight that he cannot bear.
At present, in fact, Yin Xiyue still has a problem. It was revealed that the Moon Jae-in government was somewhat "suppressed" by China on the THAAD issue at that time, and engaged in a "three-step and one-line" principle. Yoon's team is now asking the Moon jae-in government to explain what the "three-step front" is all about, and whether the Blue House has lost some south Korean sovereignty in order to curry favor with China on the THAAD issue.
The above thing, then it depends on how far Yin Xiyue wants to go. If we keep a close eye on it, then Sino-ROK relations may also be affected. After all, in the early years, Yoon Seok-yue let go of wild talk, saying that if he became the president of South Korea, he might deploy more THAAD.
Here, we can't help but ask a few words, does Yin Xiyue not know what China's attitude towardSAid is? Did he really dare to do that? Because whether it is Moon Jae-in or the president of South Korea earlier, which really dares to make Sino-South Korean relations spiral downward, South Korea has no way to bear it, it is really the kind of pain that breaks down Sino-South Korean relations.
Therefore, for Yin Xiyue, it is still necessary to be rational, it is better to focus on what you want to do most, that is, to move away from the Blue House. Yin Xiyue really wanted to move away from the Blue House quickly. After all, everyone knows that the president of South Korea is the most difficult profession in history, because there is a Blue House curse, and it is difficult to die well in the Blue House.
Therefore, Yin Xiyue knows that to relocate, it will cost a lot of money and it will take a long time, and I am afraid that it will be done well in June. On May 10th, he had no way to move into his new office right away.
However, whether or not he can do this thing of moving away from the Blue House also marks whether he is a man who speaks the truth. Because Yin Xiyue had already said that he must move. And he also said that several South Korean presidents wanted to move away from the Blue House, but they did not. Yin Xiyue felt that if he could do it, it would mean that he was a politician who matched his words and deeds.
But I'm afraid that this point, Yin Xiyue is also very difficult to do. Just like it is difficult for him to clearly choose a side position between China and the United States.