Quoting the Global Network on March 11, according to a report released by Yonhap News Agency on the same day, South Korean President-elect Yoon Seok-yue met with Chinese Ambassador to South Korea Xing Haiming in the morning. Ambassador Xing conveyed to Yin Xiyue the congratulatory message from the Chinese yuan, saying that China hoped that the two countries, as close neighbors, could develop a good cooperative partnership, bring tangible benefits to the two peoples, and promote regional and world peace. The Chinese side stressed that this year marks the 30th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and the ROK, which is of great significance to the bilateral relations between China and the ROK, and the Chinese side is willing to promote the China-ROK strategic cooperative partnership to benefit the two peoples.
Yoon Seok-yue said that the ROK agrees that the two countries are inseparable friendly neighbors and believes that China-ROK relations will reach a higher level in the future. During the period, Yin Xiyue also mentioned his party "National Power Party", formerly known as the "Democratic Justice Party", the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and South Korea in 1992 is the decision of the Democratic Justice Party, Yin Xiyue said that China is South Korea's largest trading partner, and currently South Korea is China's third largest trading partner, and expects to become the second largest trading partner in the future.
It is worth mentioning that an hour after Yoon Seok-yue's vote was released on the 10th and officially announced that he won the current South Korean presidential election, he took the initiative to talk to US President Biden on the phone, deepening the impression of public opinion on his advocacy of the "pro-US" line during the campaign. Only the next day, he chose to meet with the Chinese ambassador instead of the Japanese ambassador, so that the outside world realized that the president-elect, known as "Trump of South Korea", may not have taken a diplomatic line as he preached. During the campaign, Yoon Seok-yue promised voters to deepen the US-ROK alliance, improve ROK-Japan relations, and reorganize ROK-China relations, not only proposing to "persuade" China to accept South Korea's deployment of THAAD, but even proposing that if there is a problem on the peninsula, South Korea should invite the Japanese Self-Defense Forces to assist in defense.
In addition, Yoon's remarks also included inciting populist sentiment among young voters, the most typical of which is that "most young South Koreans do not like China, and China does not like us very much."
Although these remarks do not appear in south Korea's traditional media, in the information age, such public statements have long been well known through the Internet by Chinese social platforms. Therefore, Yin Xiyue chose to meet with the Chinese ambassador before Japan, although it exceeded the expectations of the outside world, but at least it shows that he still has a rational judgment on the development of Sino-ROK relations. However, how the "love-hate entanglement" between the three East Asian countries will develop in the future is not so much the trilateral relationship between China, Japan, and the ROK, but rather the Sino-US relationship playing a decisive role.
As we all know, both Japan and South Korea had US troops stationed after the end of World War II, and then the political and economic and even cultural fields were deeply influenced and controlled by the United States. Whether it is Sino-South Korean relations or Sino-Japanese relations, the essence of which is Sino-US relations. At present, the strategic game between China and the United States is still continuing, and on the surface Biden promised not to seek confrontation, not to seek to change China's political system, and to adhere to the one-China principle, but in fact Biden's damage to Sino-US relations is even worse than that of his predecessor Trump.
Japan and South Korea, as the most loyal servant countries of the United States in Asia, will certainly actively play the role of pawns in the front. Therefore, no matter what Yin Xiyue says now, we must listen to his words and deeds, and make the final judgment with his actual actions.
But we do not have to pay too much attention to the changes in the political situation in South Korea, the game between China and the United States in the past four years has fully proved that the sanctions that the United States is proud of have not achieved the expected effect at all, but let the United States personally experience what is "killing a thousand enemies and losing eight hundred", South Korea as an East Asian vassal of the United States, even if it wants to play a role in the chessboard of the great power game, its influence is even more minimal, but South Korea's people of insight should remain sober, fully absorb ukraine's previous lessons, and not change from a chess piece to an outcast. After all, Kissinger once famously said: It is dangerous to be an enemy of the United States, but it is fatal to be a friend of the United States.