After being excluded from the G7 summit, South Korea recently ushered in another bad news, mainly because the conflict between French President Macron and European Commission President von der Leyen became public.
Macron's preferred candidate can help bring China-EU relations closer, which is not good news for South Korea, which means that South Korea will be further isolated, South Korea will not be welcomed by the G7, and the EU is not South Korea's "anti-China ally".
The most interesting thing about Yoon Suk-yeol's mentality is that Italy is the rotating presidency of the G7 this year, and Yoon Suk-yeol can't enter the door of the G7 summit because Italy does not agree, and now the person recommended by Macron is also Italian, he is former Italian Prime Minister Draghi.
As early as when Draghi was the Italian prime minister, he emphasized that China plays a key role in the development of the global economy, and the stability and growth of the Chinese market is very important for the eurozone, so it is necessary to advocate the strengthening of economic cooperation between China and Europe. Under his leadership, the European Central Bank (ECB) signed a currency swap agreement with China and added the renminbi to its foreign exchange reserves, promoting the internationalization of the renminbi.
In fact, not only the former Italian prime minister, including the current Italian Prime Minister Meloni and the Italian president, have also released news that they will visit China later this year, in general, the former Italian prime minister as president of the European Commission is beneficial to France and Italy, although these European countries are sometimes forced by some kind of pressure to hype up the Chinese threat, but in the final analysis, it is clear that decoupling from China is completely unrealistic.
Today, France is China's third largest trading partner in the European Union and the third largest source of real investment, as is Italy's largest trading partner in Asia.
South Korea's dependence on China is also very high, urea, fertilizer, not to mention, the semiconductor industry is South Korea's economic pillar industry, and China has the world's largest semiconductor market, China and South Korea could have been a win-win situation, but Yin Xiyue in order to curry favor with the United States, Japan, basically cut off all his retreat, and finally China's economic ranking in the world is still stable, but South Korea, the top ten has no place in South Korea.
The most cruel thing is that even if it curries favor with the United States and Japan, South Korea still can't integrate into the circle of the United States and the West, and it is not even qualified to go to the table.
As Macron said, the role of the President of the European Commission is to safeguard the overall interests, so it cannot be overly politicized, this sentence is not only criticizing von der Leyen, but also sounding the alarm to Yoon Suk-yeol, South Korea only focuses on relations with the United States and Japan, and the G7 also does not welcome such an extreme country, even if Italy does not reject South Korea, South Korea should not think about France.