High quality reception in China!
On October 30 local time, the 21th ceremonial cannon at Busan Kimhai International Airport shook the ears, South Korea's foreign minister Zhao Zhao led the high-ranking officials to welcome, the soldier stood on both sides of the red carpet, and the military orchestra performed a welcome song.
This treatment is not the case, it is South Korea that has written "seeking cooperation" on its face.
After 11 years, high-level Chinese officials visited South Korea again. Behind this grand ceremony, South Korea has clear realistic accounts.
South Korea's "enthusiasm" is basically forced by economic needs. China has been South Korea's largest trading partner for 21 consecutive years. In 2024, the bilateral trade volume will reach US $328.08 billion, and one-fifth of South Korea's exports will be digested by the Chinese market.
The Korean pillar industries of semiconductors, automobiles, batteries, production lines can not be opened and profits are not high, all look at the face of the Chinese market.
Not long ago on the Chinese team visa exemption, Jiangsu island Malay people are full of trouble, hotel business exploded, South Korea itself estimates this trick can boost the economic growth of 2% to 3%.
After 20 years as APEC chairmanship, this is the first major international event since Li assumed office in the Ming government, it is crucial that China participates.
If there was a lack of China, the summit in Qingzhou probably would be left with only the United States and South Korea singing the spring, and the calculator of South Korea wanting to be the "mediator" would fall empty.
You know, APEC covers more than 60% of the world's GDP. South Korea wants to use the summit to promote AI transformation and gain its international presence. Without China as an important partner, it is simply impossible.
Foreign ministers have been invited to Beijing in advance, and the congressman has visited with a personal letter, this wave of patterns has accumulated sincerity to the top, and the deeper reasons are hidden in the geopolitical backdrop of South Korea.
In the past, the path of "depending on China for economy and the United States for security" became increasingly impossible. Polls show that over 60% of Koreans want to strengthen economic cooperation with China, and more than half of them think that the United States is "too wide".
The situation on the Korean Peninsula is uneven, and supply chain stability is not guaranteed, and these difficulties cannot be avoided by China.
If South Korea wants to engage in "independent national defense" and find a balance between China and the United States, it must first straighten out its relations with China.
After all, the stability in Northeast Asia is a safety net for economic and trade development for South Korea.
China and Korea have long been deeply bound in the supply chain, and South Korea's battery materials and rare earth are mostly dependent on China, and this complementarity can not be broken.
Now laying the red carpet, is to build a bridge of cooperation in these emerging fields of AI and 5G, to buy "double insurance" to the own industry.
In the changing global pattern, only by holding China as a neighbor can we gain a firm foothold on the chessboard of Northeast Asia. This grand reception is not so much a courtesy as a strategic statement of South Korea.
When economic reality hits geopolitics, pragmatic cooperation will always be on the back of the side side, this wave of operation, South Korea is really bad.
On October 30 local time, the 21th ceremonial cannon at Busan Kimhai International Airport shook the ears, South Korea's foreign minister Zhao Zhao led the high-ranking officials to welcome, the soldier stood on both sides of the red carpet, and the military orchestra performed a welcome song.
This treatment is not the case, it is South Korea that has written "seeking cooperation" on its face.
After 11 years, high-level Chinese officials visited South Korea again. Behind this grand ceremony, South Korea has clear realistic accounts.
South Korea's "enthusiasm" is basically forced by economic needs. China has been South Korea's largest trading partner for 21 consecutive years. In 2024, the bilateral trade volume will reach US $328.08 billion, and one-fifth of South Korea's exports will be digested by the Chinese market.
The Korean pillar industries of semiconductors, automobiles, batteries, production lines can not be opened and profits are not high, all look at the face of the Chinese market.
Not long ago on the Chinese team visa exemption, Jiangsu island Malay people are full of trouble, hotel business exploded, South Korea itself estimates this trick can boost the economic growth of 2% to 3%.
After 20 years as APEC chairmanship, this is the first major international event since Li assumed office in the Ming government, it is crucial that China participates.
If there was a lack of China, the summit in Qingzhou probably would be left with only the United States and South Korea singing the spring, and the calculator of South Korea wanting to be the "mediator" would fall empty.
You know, APEC covers more than 60% of the world's GDP. South Korea wants to use the summit to promote AI transformation and gain its international presence. Without China as an important partner, it is simply impossible.
Foreign ministers have been invited to Beijing in advance, and the congressman has visited with a personal letter, this wave of patterns has accumulated sincerity to the top, and the deeper reasons are hidden in the geopolitical backdrop of South Korea.
In the past, the path of "depending on China for economy and the United States for security" became increasingly impossible. Polls show that over 60% of Koreans want to strengthen economic cooperation with China, and more than half of them think that the United States is "too wide".
The situation on the Korean Peninsula is uneven, and supply chain stability is not guaranteed, and these difficulties cannot be avoided by China.
If South Korea wants to engage in "independent national defense" and find a balance between China and the United States, it must first straighten out its relations with China.
After all, the stability in Northeast Asia is a safety net for economic and trade development for South Korea.
China and Korea have long been deeply bound in the supply chain, and South Korea's battery materials and rare earth are mostly dependent on China, and this complementarity can not be broken.
Now laying the red carpet, is to build a bridge of cooperation in these emerging fields of AI and 5G, to buy "double insurance" to the own industry.
In the changing global pattern, only by holding China as a neighbor can we gain a firm foothold on the chessboard of Northeast Asia. This grand reception is not so much a courtesy as a strategic statement of South Korea.
When economic reality hits geopolitics, pragmatic cooperation will always be on the back of the side side, this wave of operation, South Korea is really bad.