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[Foreign Affairs · Politics] [최병일 회원/Choi Byung-il] Why not aKorea-U.S.-Japan TTC? (Korea Joongang Daily 2022.04.17)

Date: 2022-04-17

Korea Joongang Daily |  Choi Byung-il  Professor at the Ewha Womans University Graduate School of International Studies;  President of the Korea Foundation for Advanced Studies 

 2022.04.17

 

President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol has been decisive and clear on the foreign affairs front. He has sent a delegation to Washington shortly after his election in March and visited the U.S. military base in Pyeongtaek, Gyeonggi. On the campaign trail in February, he contributed an opinion piece to Foreign Affairs in which he wrote, “A deeper alliance with Washington should be the central axis of Seoul’s foreign policy.”

Yoon has veered away from the strategic ambiguity in foreign policy of President Moon Jae-in to strategic certainty. Foreign affairs have become closely related to security and economic affairs. Now the second largest economic power, China has challenged the United States in a power contest through a technological buildup. President Xi Jinping has exposed his ambitions for China’s control of East Asia, claiming the Pacific should be shared by China and America. The U.S. hopes for more democratic development in China once it joined the free international order have been dashed. The U.S. containment campaign that started under President Donald Trump has entered a second stage under Joe Biden.

 

 

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Source: https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/2022/04/17/opinion/columns/Yoo-Sukyeol-the-US-China/20220417195743619.html

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