{"id":2199503,"date":"2022-11-17T10:12:22","date_gmt":"2022-11-17T10:12:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nknews.org\/koreapro\/?p=2199503"},"modified":"2023-04-05T16:10:58","modified_gmt":"2023-04-05T07:10:58","slug":"great-power-rivalry-limits-the-extent-to-which-yoon-and-xi-can-work-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/koreapro.org\/2022\/11\/great-power-rivalry-limits-the-extent-to-which-yoon-and-xi-can-work-together\/","title":{"rendered":"Great power rivalry limits the extent to which Yoon and Xi can work together"},"content":{"rendered":"
Yoon Suk-yeol and Xi Jinping said this week that they want to work together as much as possible, but due to U.S.-China rivalry, there are fewer and fewer opportunities to do this.<\/span><\/p>\n The two leaders\u2019 <\/span>first meeting<\/span><\/a> at the G-20 summit in Indonesia on Tuesday was cordial enough, but reading between the lines, it\u2019s apparent that the two sides are at odds on a number of security and economic issues.<\/span><\/p>\n Yoon spent much of his two-legged trip to the ASEAN summit in Cambodia and the G-20 summit in Indonesia aligning South Korea more closely with the U.S. This was reflected in not only a <\/span>trilateral summit<\/span><\/a> with Japan and the U.S. but also South Korea\u2019s <\/span>newly announced<\/span><\/a> Indo-Pacific strategy, which shares <\/span>many similarities<\/span><\/a> to Washington\u2019s vision for a \u201c<\/span>rules-based order<\/span><\/a>\u201d in the region.<\/span><\/p>\n And while Xi and U.S. President Joe Biden managed to <\/span>cool tensions<\/span><\/a> during their <\/span>summit<\/span><\/a> in Cambodia, the two countries made little concrete progress in solving their fundamental differences.<\/span><\/p>\n As long as China and the U.S. \u2014 the ROK\u2019s most important economic and security partners, respectively \u2014 are feuding, South Korea\u2019s scope for improving ties with Beijing will remain constrained.<\/span><\/p>\n