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Editorial comment The US and China are running to the point of conflict over global hegemony. US think tanks expect China to overtake the US within 10 years if the US neglects the rise of China. When the Rand Institute evaluated a nation’s national power last year as military, economy, technology, governance, and human resources, the report contained shocking details that the global hegemony of the United States and China will intersect by 2023 as early as 2023. The “public pressure” of the United States has become an inevitable fate, not an option, and the conflict between the United States and China is now entering the countdown. For us, we are at a crossroads where we have to choose one country among the US and China. Or there is an argument that’neutral diplomacy’ should be carried out until the end without an alternative. Over the next seven times, in the situation of the US-China war of supremacy, the US and China are planning to throw a topic on our diplomacy through the paper over the position of the US and China, which side we should take with the US and China, or whether to continue neutral diplomacy.
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| Chinese President Xi Jinping, President Moon Jae-in, and US President Joe Biden. © News1 Designer Eun-Hyun Lee |
Recently, as the battle between the US and China has intensified, the composition of’Western vs. China-Russia’ is expanding beyond the US-China. From the standpoint of Korean diplomacy, it is pointed out that it is a situation to keep in mind not only the competition for supremacy between the US and China, but also another’variable’.
US Secretary of State Tony Blincoln, who oversaw the schedule of his visit to Japan and South Korea last week, attended a high-level US-China talks in Alaska from the 18th (local time) to the 19th. Through this, it confirmed the’gap’ with China and announced the beginning of full-fledged US-China hegemony.
In particular, both sides of the US, China, exchanged’horse bombs’ and fought a battle. Controversy over diplomatic rudeness was raised. In the end, after promising only formal cooperation on climate change and the novel coronavirus infection (Corona 19), the two sides left. No joint statement was also drawn.
Minister Blincoln then headed straight to Belgium. After achieving the goal of rallying the Asian alliances on a tour schedule between Japan and South Korea, they set out to crack down on European allies.
Minister Blincoln stays in Belgium until the 24th, attends a meeting of the foreign ministers of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), and then meets with EU officials. Through this, it is expected that the US will seek to rebuild relations with NATO and the EU.
A series of diplomatic agendas are aimed at realizing President Joe Biden’s diplomatic value of rebuilding the alliance. In fact, they are busy building public control lines.
China has also taken steps to’make my side’. It is pointed out that the cooperation with Russia, a representative’friendship’, stands out.
After the high-level talks between the US and China, China held a meeting with the Chinese-Russia foreign ministers and showed uncomfortable signs aimed at the United States. Both sides of China and Russia made one voice saying, “We must refrain from interfering with the internal affairs and politicizing human rights issues by other countries (the United States).”
“There is no standard model for democracy,” he said. “Other countries have to recognize the legal right of a sovereign state to take its own development path.”
It was analyzed that the biden administration, which aimed to strengthen the alliance with the focus on values such as democracy, freedom, and human rights, was aimed indirectly.
Also, in preparation for intensifying competition with the United States, China is preparing to bring out the’North Korean Card’. According to Chinese state media, Chinese President Xi Jinping and Labor Party general secretary Kim Jong-un recently exchanged oral letters and showed off’Chinese-Russian millwall’.
In particular, Secretary General Kim emphasized that “the two parties and the two countries will strengthen unity and cooperation in coping with the all-round challenges and hindering actions of hostile forces.” Implied that.
This is a part that suggests that the competitive composition of’Western vs. North Korea, China and Russia’ could also be expanded. An air current is being detected that is returning to the atmosphere of the’New Cold War’ where the world is divided into the United States and China.
The series of situations soon raises the assessment that the strategy of Korean diplomacy, which is taking’strategic ambiguity’ between the US and China, is inevitable.
Among them, voices are raised that we need our own preemptive response based on principles, not the number of cases only in the US, China, and China.
Park Won-gon, a professor of North Korean Studies at Ewha Womans University, said, “Before the composition (West vs. China, Russia, West vs. North Korea, etc.) becomes fixed, the Korean government should take necessary measures as soon as possible. “Because it is self-evident,” he said.
Professor Park said, “In a situation where the world is being restructured, it is important for Korea to take the lead in speaking out our voices based on our own principles.” He added, “Retaliation” will be criticized by the United States, saying, “You have no choice but to come in.”