It can be said that several families are happy and several families are sad. Faced with the fierce tariff game and technological game between China and the United States, it is a great thing for some countries, because can't it escape the sanctions imposed by the United States? But for some countries, this has become the biggest threat.
And at the same time that the United States has not surrendered, and as China's neighbor Korea has first begun to shout out, at the same time that China announced counter-measures against the five US-related subsidiaries of Hanoi Ocean Corporation, South Korea has expressed directly that South Korea is too dependent on China, South Korea is to diversify, South Korea has become the biggest loser in the current game?
What should have come has finally come
Faced with the current Sino-US game, Japan and South Korea and other countries are extremely excited because they feel that their opportunity has come again. While South Korea was still happy, it didn't expect that the most unwanted situation would happen to South Korea.
Recently, according to relevant media reports, in the moment of so intense Chinese-American games, China announced a major decision, which is to take counter-measures against the five relevant U.S. subsidiaries of Hanoi Marine Corporation.
Because everyone knows that at such an important moment, China should be more focused on confronting the United States, but why should it be distracted to play games with South Korea and even impose sanctions on South Korean companies?
In fact, the core reason is that South Korea has touched China's reverse scale. Because this time the US imposed a stop-off fee on Chinese ships, there is a boost in the South Korean enterprises, and it can even be said that in this sanction, the South Korean enterprise helped the United States, so that the US sanctions appeared.
South Korea’s motivation is obvious, as there are two of the world’s largest shipbuilders, one is China and the other is South Korea.
Moreover, South Korea is basically running out of oil in the shipbuilding field. After all, the only profitable shipbuilding project in South Korea today is high value-added LNG ships. South Korea has long been unable to manufacture other bulk carriers.
Because according to the current competitiveness, South Korea is losing money after building one ship, and even the current shipbuilding companies in South Korea rely on the continuous subsidies from the South Korean authorities to survive. This can understand why South Korea wants to help the United States.
Because South Korea feels that I helped the United States and the United States suppressed China's shipbuilding industry, wouldn't South Korea's opportunity come?
To know that the reason why South Korea can become a developed country at present, in fact, to put it bluntly, it is because the United States suppressed Japan and supported South Korea at the beginning that today's South Korea is prosperous. Therefore, in the face of its low competitiveness, what South Korea thinks is not to improve the level of science and technology and reduce production costs, but to help the United States sanction us.
In the face of this situation, do we have to sanction it together with American companies? Moreover, you must know that a large part of the reason why South Korea's shipbuilding industry was able to survive at the beginning was that it kept its own shipbuilding industry by importing steel from China, thereby reducing costs.
Now I feel that in terms of my opportunity, we must not only help the United States suppress us, but also directly launch an anti-dumping campaign against our steel products. How can we not take action in the face of such backstabbing?
We used to have a lot of generosity, not compare with you, but now it is different, the principal and the assistant criminals should be punished together.
And even now, the South Korean authorities are still preaching that South Korea relies too much on China, so South Korea needs to get rid of its dependence on China and pursue diversified industries. It can only be said that South Korea still does not understand.
South Korea's biggest loser
For small countries, the biggest mistake is to take sides, especially when the game between big countries is the most intense. What you see is an opportunity, but it may be your burial place instead.
Isn't this the problem currently faced by South Korea? Think this is your opportunity. As long as you restrict China, your opportunity will come to you.
But did South Korea ever think, if the United States could not control, where would South Korea go?
You know, South Korea's current dependence on China's natural graphite and artificial graphite reaches 97.6% and 98.8%. With such a high dependence, it should have a good relationship with China, but South Korea wants to diversify. Isn't this just taking sides with Europe and the United States?
After all, graphite is a key raw material for anode materials. If you want to get rid of dependence on China, don't you need to strengthen cooperation with the United States?
And at present, South Korea is not only highly dependent on graphics, but also about 98% dependence on materials such as titanium, which means that today's South Korea can not be separated from China, which appears to be an ally of the United States, but in the field of industry, it is the extension of Chinese industry.
Under such circumstances, what South Korea should do most is to accelerate cooperation with China, instead of taking sides with the United States to engage in the so-called diversified industrial chain, because it is neither economical nor possible. Because the United States can't re-industrialize at all, and can South Korea rebuild a new industrial chain on its own?
It can only be said that this is only a lesson for China, but it is the last chance for South Korea.