#精品长文创作季#韩国外长终于来到了中国并与中国外长进行了会谈, on the surface, the ROK foreign minister's visit to China was at the invitation of the mainland's foreign minister, but in fact the ROK came from the mainland at the request of the mainland, but judging from the talks, the Chinese side understood what the ROK meant, but the ROK foreign minister did not understand the three-point speech of the Chinese side, but the boss understood and was very worried. Why?
The South Korean side has a request from us, because the current situation of the South Korean side is very difficult, especially after taking refuge with the boss, life will be even more difficult
Before the ROK foreign minister came to China, the ROK was already facing a very harsh environment and difficult problems to solve.
First, the approval rating of the South Korean president has dropped to 24%, the lowest point of any South Korean president in more than 30 years, and the South Korean side urgently needs to add points to its political achievements by easing relations with China.
Second, the situation on the Korean Peninsula has become increasingly uncertain under the stimulus of the ROK, the United States and Japan, and in the face of the DPRK's increasing military capabilities, the ROK is increasingly aware of the increasing risks and urgently needs to turn to China to cool down the situation on the peninsula.
The third is to ease ROK-China relations and strengthen economic cooperation, because ROK did not expect that it would have a worse life after joining the Western camp to deal with China, and it urgently needs to ease economic and trade relations with China to seek its own economic interests.
Originally, China and the ROK had close economic and trade relations, and the ROK had also earned a lot of economic benefits, and it had made a lot of money by riding the express train of the mainland's economic development. However, South Korea has thrown itself into the Western camp and completely abandoned the Chinese market, and has actively worked with its allies to carry out all-round attacks on the mainland's science and technology, economy, and culture, and has also jumped up and down on the Taiwan Strait and the South China Sea, the mainland's core interests, in the hope of restraining China's development and enhancing its international status and economic development capabilities. But the script was reversed, and the lives of ordinary people were even more miserable.
South Korea's economy is on the verge of collapse due to a series of serious problems, with South Korea's GDP growth rate in 2023 being just 1.4%, the lowest level of economic growth in nearly three years.
South Korea's once dominant auto industry has been far abandoned by the mainland market, and the Korean auto industry is gradually withdrawing from the mainstream market in the mainland, with sales of South Korea's Kia, Hyundai and other brands in the mainland plummeting by 30% in 2023. South Korea's shipbuilding industry is being overtaken by China, which accounted for 59% of global shipbuilding orders as of March this year, compared to 24% for South Korea.
South Korea's once invincible semiconductors due to active participation in European and American sanctions on the mainland, resulting in the original semiconductors, especially the advantages of the chip industry, are difficult to ship, with the independent research and development of mainland chips, South Korea's semiconductor sales fell by 37.5%, which directly led to South Korea's trade surplus with China to become a trade deficit.
South Korea has adopted various unfriendly policies towards Chinese tourism to South Korea because of its loyalty to its host, which has led to a heavy blow to South Korea's tourism industry, which is dominated by Chinese tourists, and now it has reversed a large number of Koreans to travel to China, and South Korea has been looking forward to the Chinese tourism boom to South Korea has not appeared as expected, but has been increasingly abandoned by the Chinese people. In particular, South Korea's price level has risen sharply, and there is an urgent need to ease relations with China to solve economic problems.
The China-ROK talks were originally requested by the ROK, but the ROK's attitude is very proud, and although the Chinese side is very polite, it will take a firm stance and will not make concessions!
The ROK has asked China for "help" on issues such as geopolitics, stability on the Korean Peninsula, economic development, and the China-Japan-ROK summit. But the attitude of the South Korean foreign minister was arrogant before, he didn't know who was the king in the world, and he thought he was a "meeting card"? Anyone can take care of it.
In the past, the ROK first claimed that the Chinese foreign minister should visit the ROK first and then visit the Chinese side in accordance with the usual practice, but the Chinese side ignored it. In the end, the ROK side could only lower its status and visit the Chinese side first, and this mentality of a small country and a widow was also reflected in the meeting with the Chinese foreign minister.
When the ROK side held talks with the Chinese side, its mentality was actually not commensurate with the reality of the ROK, and it was in too much contrast with the attitude it was seeking, and it wanted to ask for people but did not want to have a good attitude.
On May 14, the South Korean Foreign Minister introduced the details of the talks with the Chinese side, originally wanting to add points and relief to himself in terms of momentum, but in fact revealed that the talks had collapsed!
The DPRK side said that the ROK-China relations, which are currently cooling, are trying to correct them, and that the ROK's relations with China are still in the stage of adjustment, change, and adjustment. Originally, I wanted to show goodwill with the Chinese side, but I had to say that it was a relationship adjustment, and it was originally the South Korea's own renunciation of friendly relations with China, but it still wanted to say that it was a correction of the previous good relations; Originally, he wanted the Chinese side to help them solve the current predicament, but at this stage, he said that he was seeking to build a sustainable development of bilateral relations. The plain meaning is: adjust the relationship that is too friendly to a normal relationship, but do not admit to taking the initiative to show goodwill. Hypocrisy, right?
On the Korean Peninsula issue, the DPRK side said that China's active role has been weakened, and the ROK's expectations of China have also been lowered. This means that the Chinese side did not agree to help, and the conclusion is that the talks have collapsed.
The ROK side said that the two sides talked about some sensitive contents, which were not leaked to the outside world, and that the straightforward understanding meant that the two sides had their own opinions, and that they "spoke their minds freely" and did not form a conclusive opinion.
Originally, it was the ROK foreign minister who came to seek help from the Chinese side this time, but the ROK side seemed to be the Chinese side asking for help from the ROK, and it felt as if the ROK foreign minister was condescending to admonish the Chinese side.
But what about reality? The ROK foreign minister said that the ROK does not approve of the zero-sum game and hopes to enhance mutual trust, expand consensus, focus on cooperation with China, avoid the constraints of geopolitical factors, and jointly open up a new situation in China-ROK cooperation.
The first bottom line is to work together to promote the sound and steady development of China-ROK relations, and requires the ROK to abide by the one-China principle and properly and prudently handle Taiwan-related issues. The second bottom line is that the development of China-ROK economic and trade relations is in line with the trend of the times, and the scale of China-ROK economic and trade cooperation is large. The third bottom line is that China is speeding up the development of new productive forces, and China's economy has huge opportunities for the ROK, and the ROK should make a careful choice based on its own interests.
China did not agree to the demands of the South Korean side, and the South Korean side did not understand the Chinese side's demands, but the boss was very worried when he understood them
Both the ROK and Japan are pawns of the United States in meddling in the Asia-Pacific situation and confronting China, and both are springboards for restraining China and intervening in the South and East China Seas.
On the one hand, the United States has deployed THAAD missiles in South Korea to form a strategic deterrent to China and North Korea. On the other hand, it has stirred up relations between the ROK and the DPRK to create a crisis on the peninsula and thus create all kinds of chaos around the mainland.
In terms of science and technology and economy, by restricting the export controls to China of the South Korean semiconductor industry, especially chip giants such as Samsung and Hynix, the development of China's semiconductor industry is suppressed and restricted, and China's influence on South Korea and North Korea is affected and limited.
However, after South Korea completely surrendered to Europe and the United States, in fact, the foundation of Sino-ROK cooperation has been undermined, and if the fundamental strategic choice cannot be resolved, the basis for Sino-ROK economic cooperation will no longer exist, and only economic and trade exchanges between each side will be left. With China's rapid development and huge market interests, it will be very difficult for South Korea to catch the fast train of China's economy.
The talks between the foreign ministers of China and the ROK have sent a signal of easing relations between the two countries, which emphasize the game between "pragmatic diplomacy" and "values-based diplomacy" of the United States, and the mutual respect and win-win cooperation advocated by China are becoming the mainstream of the international community. South Korea does not understand this point, and is still emphasizing its own arrogance, image, arrogance and ignorance, while the United States has already understood it, and thus it is also the situation that the United States is most worried about will appear, that is, if the next China-Japan-South Korea summit reaches consensus in advance, the proximity of Japan, South Korea and China in terms of economic and trade cooperation and geopolitics is what the United States is most worried about and does not want to see. (Qijian said Finance)