... state and have it swallowed up by its neighbour to the south. Meanwhile, the people of South Korea, for whom reunification has long been part of the national mentality, have... ... that they may jeopardize the country’s status and economic position. Moving on to China and Russia, they do not want to see a conflict breaking out on the Korean peninsula... ... hope that it may eventually lead to the peaceful coexistence of the two Koreas. As for Japan, the country has an irrational fear of North Korea, but has not developed an official...
... a closed-loop. Thus, the manufacture of competitive hi-tech products today is impossible within a single economy, and Chinese companies depend on parts coming from other Asian countries
Tracing the entire technological chain, we can assume that the Japan–South Korea conflict is closely linked to the trade war between China and the United States. South Korea’s Samsung Electronics is
hindered by the restrictions
on deliveries of Huawei memory chips since the latter is under U.S. sanctions. In turn, interrupting the chain of semiconductors delivery from South Korea ...
... enter any multilateral agreements, and bilateral agreements would be built on the principle of fairness and reciprocity.
Andrey Kortunov:
Pyongyang is Starts and Wins. What Can the Losers Do?
In addition, Trump acted as a salesman, literally pushing Japan and South Korea into huge multi-billion dollar arms-purchasing deals. In China, protocols of intent were approved and agreements worth over $250 billion were achieved. Of course, not all of these deals will go through, but this was a symbolic event in and of itself.
For China, these events, and the meeting with the President ...
... cause for concern here? Could a conflict between both Koreas that is capable of drawing the world’s leading powers of China, Japan and Russia in erupt on Russia’s doorstep? Could such a conflict involve weapons of mass destruction?
Today, we can ... ... peninsula failed, any hopes of achieving real peace (including in the legal sense) in the region also vanished. For both North and South Korea, the war never ended. Tensions rise and fall like the seasons change. But today, hardly anyone actually believes that ...
... country from external sources. For Pyongyang, its nuclear programme is a safety shield. And it will not give it up meekly. There is only one solution – to reach an agreement with Pyongyang on the provision of security guarantees, primarily from South Korea, but also from Russia, China, Japan and all the other countries in the region. These must be firm and convincing guarantees, so as not to arouse any suspicion on any of the sides.
The nuclear problem on the Korean Peninsula is a direct consequence of the confrontation between the ...
... most interest vested in the formation of the said group. Beijing is given a very real opportunity to prove the validity of its ambitions for recognizing the RMB (Ren Min Bi) as the key regional currency. China is promoting the project for creating the China-Japan-South Korea FTZ even though it may become a serious competitor to the already existing PRC-ASEAN FTZ. For China, the main and most attractive bonus of the NEA trilateral project is Japan’s and South Korea’s more powerful economic and technological ...