| (From left) Chinese President Xi Jinping, President Moon Jae-in, and US President Joe Biden. © News1 Designer Eun-Hyun Lee |
US President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping collided head-on in their first normal currency. In particular, President Biden pointed out the’human rights issue’, which is China’s Achilles tendon. It is an evaluation that Korea is paying attention to the aftermath of the US-China conflict.
According to the White House on the 10th (local time), President Biden expressed his fundamental concern about the human rights abuses and repressions of the Chinese government in Hong Kong and Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Regions, as well as hard-line actions in Taiwan.
Recently, President Biden mentioned Xi’s’lack of democracy’ in an interview with the US CBS Broadcasting System, which is an observation that he made a second’punch’ this time.
In the call, President Biden also emphasized that the United States is primarily interested in the’free and open Indo-Pacific’ region. Analysts say that China’s one-to-one route (land and sea Silk Road) strategy has been set against each other.
President Biden is known to have used the expression that China’s economic practices are coercive and unfair.
President Xi’s’backward attack’ against President Biden’s offensive was also difficult. Xi said the confrontation between the US and China would be a disaster for both countries. In particular, they confronted Hong Kong, Xinjiang, and Taiwan, saying that it would have to be dealt with carefully.
Since his inauguration, President Biden has focused on cracking down on alliances by talking with heads of allied countries such as Canada, Britain, France, Germany, Japan, Korea, and Australia. At the same time, the aspect of’representative war’ between US-China diplomatic lines was unfolded.
US Secretary of State Tony Blincoln said in a call with Chinese diplomatic politician Yang Jietsu on the 5th, “The United States will continue to defend human rights and democratic values in Xinjiang, Tibet and Hong Kong.”
In response, Yang Jietsu replied that “(Xinjiang, Tibet, Hong Kong, etc.) is a domestic problem in China. External forces should not intervene.”
Diplomats say that the war for supremacy between the United States and China has entered the’countercount’ with this normal currency. At the same time, he advises that the preemptive response of the Moon Jae-in administration is important. It is calling for a realistic approach rather than’strategic ambiguity’ between the US and China.
In particular, it is an observation that attention is bound to be focused on the response of the’diplomatic chief’. Currently, Foreign Minister Eui-yong Eui seems to have raised his hand to both the US and China.
In a brief briefing with reporters on the 9th, Minister Chung said, “Both the US and China are important countries for us,” referring to climate change, the prevention of new coronavirus infections (Corona 19), and peace building on the Korean Peninsula. “We can play a role in building trust between the US and China.”
Minister Chung referred to the four prerequisites for’Quad’ (participating in the US, Australia, Japan, India), which is a check and security consultation with China, including transparency, openness, inclusion, and compliance with international norms. It is possible to actively cooperate with cooperative organizations.”
However, there are mixed analyzes that indicate that Quad’s exclusivity was indirectly pointed out and that it expressed the intention of conditional cooperation. In addition, some say that “there is a different interpretation on the same issue” because the government continues to show ambiguity on the issue that the US and China are mentioned together.
Moon Seong-mook, head of the Unification Strategy Center of the Korea Institute for National Strategy, warned, “If the government continues to maintain its diplomatic strategy of maintaining an ambiguous position, it could result in missing two rabbits.”
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