US Secretary of State and Defense Secretary Insisted “You Will Not Get What You Want”
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China’s state-run media argued that South Korea is a “weak link” in the establishment of the US’s East Asian alliance and that the US will not get what it wants from Korea.
The Global Times, an English sister magazine of the People’s Daily, an agency of the Chinese Communist Party, said on the 18th, “Korea is a weak link in the US strategy to besiege China. It will not work.” The US achieved its purpose of pressure from China in the ‘2+2 (diplomatic and defense) talks’ with Japan earlier, but it is not easy to apply it in Korea.
The media delivered the news of the first meetings between South Korean Foreign Minister Eui-yong Eui-yong, Defense Minister Seo Wook, Secretary of State Tony Blincoln, and Defense Minister Lloyd Austin. In addition, Secretary Seo Wook said in a meeting with Austin Secretary that it was important to maintain a strong deterrent against North Korea and a joint defense posture. However, he noted that “the secretary did not mention China.”
The media predicted that South Korea’s reluctance to publicly mention China is because it has political and economic relations, and predicted that South Korea would distance itself from the US strategy of building an East Asian alliance to block China.
Ji-yong Ji-yong, head of the Korean Research Center at Fudan University, who interviewed the media, explained, “Korea needs Chinese mediation to improve relations with North Korea, including the North Korean nuclear program, and economic relations should also be considered.”
The Global Times previously devalued the results of the U.S. Secretary of State and Defense’s visit to Japan, saying that Japan itself has become a strategic accessory to the United States. The US and Japan said in a joint statement that China claimed to be inconsistent with the existing international order.
/Beijing = Correspondent Soomoon Choi [email protected]
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