When Pompeo is turned on, the king goes and turns it off … China is alone these days

Hong Kong’s Myeongbo recently predicted that if Chinese President Xi Jinping visits overseas this year, Korea will be the most influential. [연합뉴스]

There is a story circulating in Beijing’s diplomatic district that Chinese diplomats have fallen for the four-sided song. The United States is burning the “ anti-communist party of China ” around the world. However, China is currently in a state of urgent need for firefighting diplomacy to extinguish this fire.

It is also read as part of the firefighting diplomacy that Wang Yi, a member of the State Council and Minister of Foreign Affairs of China, visited Korea in October. When US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who is visiting Korea for the first time in early October, lights the fire to join the ‘Anti-China Front’, the King is expected to show up with a fire extinguisher immediately.

US President Donald Trump is stepping up his attacks on China, especially as the US presidential election approaches after the new coronavirus infection (Corona 19). [UPI=연합뉴스]

The relationship with the strongest America in the world, which is focused on “beating China,” is in the New Cold War state and about to be broken. It is approaching a situation of armed conflict with India, a country with a large population, with casualties that occurred in June. Europe and Japan, where China has worked hard, are also turning their back.

In a speech at the UN General Assembly on the 25th, the President of the European Union, Charles Michele, spoke about the passage of the Hong Kong National Security Law and China’s human rights violations against Uighurs in Xinjiang, after losing luck saying: “Europe does not share values ​​with China.” And he put pressure on China.

Relations with Japan, which had been warm for a while, faced a headwind after President Xi Jinping’s visit to Japan was canceled in April. The height of the waves in the waters of the Senkaku Islands (Chinese name: 釣魚島), which is causing a sovereignty dispute between China and Japan, is increasing.

Wang Yi, a member of the State Council and Minister of Foreign Affairs of China, will visit Japan in October to meet with the new Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga. Sino-Japanese relations are gradually growing apart after Chinese President Xi Jinping canceled his visit to Japan in April. [AP=연합뉴스]

According to a report by the Hong Kong South China Morning Post (SCMP) on the 28th, China entered the waters in question 227 times in 17 months and 516 days from November 2017 to March 2019. However, during the 519 days out of 17 months from April 2019 to August, he entered 456 times. More than double.

It is obvious that the tension between China and Japan has increased. Relations between China and ASEAN are also uneasy. In a report on the 26th, SCMP noted that China’s belligerent diplomacy, which was rough as a wolf, is gradually pushing ASEAN countries to join the US-led Indo-Pacific strategy.

It is also worth noting that the relationship with Russia, to which President Xi pays his greatest attention, has become subtle. The two countries are apparently showing their friendship, but after the conflict between China and China in June, Russia’s expansion of fighter jet sales to India is causing a backlash from China.

In the Chinese internet space, a post was published saying: “I am fighting an enemy and what will happen if my friend hands the sword to the enemy?” He criticized Russia. In particular, Russia is postponing the sale of the latest surface-to-air missile system, the S-400, to China, while trying to rush to India, which is drawing ire from China.

Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Putin are showing their strong friendship. However, a gap is said to be opening up as Russia expanded its fighter jet sales to India after the conflict with China in June. [뉴시스]

Why does Chinese diplomacy fall at the beginning of an amnesty? It is because there are fires around China. Who makes the fire? It is the United States, and its acting commander is Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Minister Pompeo travels around the world, lighting the fire of opposition to the Chinese Communist Party.

Pompeo is working with the European Union to create a ‘pan-Atlantic alliance’ to besiege China. In July-August, he toured six countries, including Austria, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovenia, the United Kingdom, and Denmark, and he spoke openly against the CCP. He did not forget the criticism of 5G companies in China like Huawei.

Indeed, the Czech Senate Milos Vitrechil led a delegation to Taiwan in late August and infuriated China. In China, Wang sent a member of the State Council and a member of the Political Bureau in charge of diplomacy in succession to Europe, but it did not catch fire.

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is at the forefront of “beating China.” He is trying to establish a “transatlantic alliance” with Europe and is promoting a quadruple consultation, a four-country security consultation with Japan, India and Australia. They are all aimed at China. [중국 환구망 캡처]

Pompeo visits Korea and Japan one after another in early October. The United States is reported to discuss the four-nation ‘Quad’ security council, which is promoted by the United States with Japan, Australia and India. The United States is also promoting the Economic Prosperity Network (EPN), an economic alliance against China. Then it is known that China will also send Wangi to Korea and Japan in October. He is trying to engage in counter-diplomacy against the US blockade.

In the context of China’s fire diplomacy, China’s perception that third-country actions are very important in the confrontation between the United States and China. Fu Ying (傅 瑩), former high-ranking diplomat in China, director of the Center for Strategic Security Research at Tsinghua University, said: “In the Sino-American confrontation, it is important who gets the support of third countries like Europe , Russia, Japan and ASEAN “. This is because their support or not will affect the next move by the United States and China.

The most recent aspect is that if the United States first exclaims to the world, “Stand against China, side with the United States” and engages in aggressive diplomacy, China is in a rush to adopt defensive diplomacy, saying, side with the United States, at least don’t support China. ” be be.

Fu Ying, a former senior Chinese diplomat, director of the Center for Strategic Security Research at Tsinghua University, said: “How third countries think about the battle for power in Central America is important.” Both the United States and China are said to seek support from third countries. [뉴스1]

While the United States is building a global front against China, China has a side that views Korea as a major advance through the US blockade. This is the reason why the king wants to send the chancellor again in the two months following the dispatch of a member of the Political Bureau in charge of diplomacy in August.

On the 26th, Huangu Sibo from China quickly reported the words of Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha that “we have not been invited to join the group.” While delivering this content, Hwangu Times picked up the headline as ‘Korea has no intention of joining the group that controls China’.

It was hoped that Korea would not sympathize with the United States and hold back China. After the Tiananmen crisis in 1989, China has embarked on a massive diplomatic operation with neighboring countries to escape US-led international sanctions.

Wang Yi, who toured Europe in late August, meets with French President Emanuel Macron, a member of the Chinese state council and foreign minister, and salutes her with his elbows. [중국외교부 홈페이지 캡처]

In 1992, diplomatic relations between Korea and China took place in this context. China may also launch a massive diplomatic offensive against South Korea this time, regarding South Korea, an ally of the United States, as a “weak link.” President Xi Jinping’s visit to the Korea card, which has yet to take place, is one of them.

On the 24th, Hong Kong Myungbo (明 報) chose Korea as one of the foreign countries that President Xi could visit this year. President Xi canceled his visit to Japan in April after a new coronavirus infection (Corona 19) broke out after visiting Myanmar in early January.

President Xi was scheduled to attend the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Malaysia scheduled for November and the G20 summit in Saudi Arabia, but all these meetings were replaced by video conferences.

National Security Office chief Seo Hoon (right) and Yang Jietsu, a member of the Chinese Communist Party’s Political Affairs Bureau, are speaking after meeting at the Westin Chosun Hotel in Busan on August 22. [연합뉴스]

Myungbo explained that for Xi to visit, the relationship with China must be close, the crown’s situation is stable, and the country must be able to make sense of Xi’s visit, but Korea is the country that meets all three conditions.

As in the case of diplomatic relations between Korea and China, if President Xi visits Korea this year, he will want to use it as an opportunity to break the US public blockade. On the other hand, it is very likely that Korea will fall into a sandwich position between the strategic confrontation of the United States and China. This is the time when extraordinary diplomatic wisdom is required.

Beijing = Yoo Sang-chul, correspondent [email protected]