► China’s anti-US drive is not new, but it has become more virulent and explicit over the last five years. Applicable to the Korean peninsula, China sees the US - not the DPRK - as the biggest troublemaker and accuses the United States of instigating conflicts across the globe. ► The recent rapprochement attempts between Tokyo and Seoul, as well as the adoption under the Yoon administrati...

► Korea-China relations are deteriorating. After the Korean government's decision to deploy THAAD, the Chinese government responded with coercive diplomacy, deepening the emotional rift between the two countries. In addition to security cooperation, attempts to diversify economic exchanges naturally followed, which has accelerated the deterioration of bilateral relations in the era of US-China strategic compet...

► Amid intensifying US-China strategic competition, the Yoon administration's policies toward the US, Japan, and expansion of regional security cooperation inevitably create structural challenges for Korea-China relations across various domains. ► Moves toward China by US allies indicate the realistic challenges of the US insisting on de-coupling from China and a willingness to maintain strategic autonomy, pu...

► South Korea, in addition to dealing with divided nation politics and a belligerent North Korea, faces a complex strategic landscape, especially because the United States is its security ally while China is its number-one trading partner. ► The opportunity costs of strained relations are increasing, and strategists in Beijing should be concerned that South Korean sentiments toward China have deteriorated.&nbs...