The Chinese Strategic Research Institute reported that the measures the US allowed the Moon Jae-in government to develop missiles were “for containment of China.”
The Chinese Institute for Contemporary International Relations (CICIR) said, "By lifting restrictions on missile development and allowing South Korea to develop medium- and long-range missiles, the Biden administration has provided South Korea with carrots to contain China." The South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported that China believes that China will try to unify Taiwan by force, and that if an actual clash occurs in the Taiwan Strait, it will be difficult for South Korea to refuse the US to mobilize South Korean troops. reported on the 1st.
The published report said that the ROK and the United States have been strengthening their alliance to encircle China by promoting extensive cooperation with South Korea in semiconductors and next-generation mobile communications (5G) since the beginning of the inauguration of President Joe Biden. If that happens, 26,000 USFK troops will be on the side of Taiwan,” he said.
The Washington-U.S. joint statement on May 21 of the Korea-U.S. summit stipulated “agreement between the leaders” on “freedom of navigation in the South China Sea” and “peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait.”
At a joint press conference at the summit, President Moon responded to a US reporter's question about whether President Biden pressured him to take a tougher stance toward China on the Taiwan issue, saying, "No." We shared the recognition that it is important,” he replied on the 21st.
President Biden also announced at the summit that the US will supply 550,000 South Korean soldiers with the vaccine.
On the 25th, Foreign Minister Chung Eui-yong announced through KBS that “the principle of resolving peace on the Korean Peninsula and the principle of resolving cross-strait peace are of the same nature” through KBS, and heralding the expansion of the power-based peace policy by increasing armaments on the Korean Peninsula to the issue of Taiwan and China.
In the 'Four-Year Defense Policy Review Report' on February 1, 2010, the US Department of Defense said, "We will strategically and flexibly deploy US forces deployed in Asia, including US forces in Korea." We will send the wartime OPEN to the South Korean military in 2012 as scheduled.”
At a Senate confirmation hearing on May 13, U.S. Forces Korea's nominee Paul Lacamera said, "We are not in a position to reveal a specific position about North Korea's expected behavior and USFK's response in the event of China's invasion of Taiwan." We will review the impact.”
At the White House summit press conference (May 21), President Moon announced the agreement to lift the missile restrictions as 'good news', and in his address to the National Assembly on Oct. “The government has a strong will for peace on the Korean Peninsula and has expanded its defense budget to 52.9 trillion won by further increasing investment in defense, the last bastion of national security.”
The CICIR report stated, “Recently, military cooperation between South Korea and the United States has been strengthened. Last May, the United States lifted decades-old restrictions on South Korea's missile range, and four months later, South Korea launched a ballistic missile from a submarine. This is the first of its kind among non-nuclear countries.”
The SCMP said, "South Korea has stated that its missile capabilities are for defense against North Korea, but Song Zhongping, a former instructor and military critic of the People's Liberation Army, said, 'It can also pose a threat to China.' “If we are in the Nago alliance, South Korea has no choice but to follow the United States,” he said.
<See article on May 27, Kim Jong-chan’s Security and Economy, U.S. Forces Korea’s ‘Dispatch of U.S. Forces to the Taiwan Strait through President Moon’s Power-Based Peace’>