Recently, as the game between China and the United States intensifies, there has been a subtle change in the attitude of the South Korean government, which was originally firmly on the side of the United States, and it is rumored that the Yoon Suk-yeol government is now making every effort to promote the visit of the South Korean foreign minister to China in order to ease relations between the two countries.
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It also indicates that the Yoon Suk-yeol administration has begun to adjust its foreign policy. In fact, since the Yoon Suk-yeol administration took office, it has reversed the previous Moon Jae-in administration's China policy, firmly sided with the United States, and tore up many agreements with the mainland, which has also caused the relationship between the two countries to fall to a freezing point.
And Yoon's foreign policy has not brought much tangible benefit to South Korea. At present, the current situation for South Korea is that as a country supported by the United States, South Korea's diplomatic autonomy is often not in the hands of South Korea, and can only be on the same front with the United States, but South Korea, which is in the Asian financial belt, can only rely on China's stimulation for economic development in many cases.
In this regard, the previous Moon Jae-in administration was significantly more pragmatic than Yoon Suk-yeol, and he actively engaged in a series of foreign trade deals with China to promote South Korea's development. But the successor Yoon Suk-yeol is obviously betting the fate of South Korea in the hands of the United States, which is also the layout of its foreign policy adjustment, since it has decided to cut off economic exchanges with China, it is inevitable to make up for the loopholes caused by China's withdrawal from a third party, and the only country that meets this condition is the United States.
In addition, since Yoon Suk-yeol has chosen the United States, he still needs to pull enough allies in Asia to confront China, combined with the current situation in Asia, no single country can confront China, and can only choose to gang up to have some vitality, but judging from South Korea's diplomatic situation, no country in the whole of Asia is willing to stand with South Korea except Japan.
But the problem is that Japan and South Korea have serious historical problems, and for a long time, China's and South Korea's right-wing refusal to recognize history has made China and South Korea quite unhappy, so the relationship between the two countries has always been unpleasant to each other.
Therefore, in order to solve this problem, Yoon Suk-yeol directly carried out a policy of currying favor with Japan after taking office, not only making concessions to Japan on historical issues, but even helping Japan speak out on the issue of Japan's discharge of nuclear wastewater.
As a result, Yoon Suk-yeol, whose economy regressed and lost everything in the national character, eventually plummeted in South Korea's approval rating, and the country was generally dissatisfied with his governance, and the only thing that makes Yoon Suk-yeol feel a little relieved is probably the support of the ruling party behind him.
With Yoon Suk-yeol's national approval rating at a record high, his National Power Party also suffered a crushing defeat in the October general election, winning only 108 seats, a situation rarely seen in the entire history of South Korea.
In addition, as Yoon Suk-yeol implements the pro-US policy to the end, the situation on the peninsula has become more complicated, and the military cooperation between North Korea and Russia has become closer and closer, with the former directly bypassing the United States and obtaining a large number of high-tech weapons from Russia, and directly defining South Korea from "compatriot" to "enemy" in the constitution, and the strong attitude of North Korea has also made South Korea's political position more and more embarrassing.
In short, in order to distinguish Yoon Suk-yeol from the previous administration, the biggest change is the change in foreign policy, but facts have proved that the mainstream of South Korea is indeed pro-American, which is also determined by South Korea's national conditions, but at the same time, as an Asian country, leaving the United States must also be South Korea's final choice.
And Yoon Suk-yeol, who took two years to discover this trend, also changed his strategy for the first time and returned to the line of Moon Jae-in, but to be honest, the Yoon Suk-yeol government, which has abandoned the dignity and integrity of the country, is now jumping left and right as a wall-to-wall grass, will the South Korean people really pay for his mistakes? Moreover, the accident rate of the South Korean president is unique in the world, and almost no president can die well, can Yoon Suk-yeol's poor performance in the past four years really be changed by relying on the foreign minister to ease Sino-South Korean relations?
I think that in the end, Yoon Suk-yeol's ending is nothing more than adding a strong color to the South Korean president's blood book.