中韩

Missile talks reframe Seoul’s link with Beijing

When South Korea’s president joined her Chinese counterpart at a military parade in Beijing in September the event was seen as one of her biggest achievements.

Park Geun-hye had presided over a steady strengthening of ties with China, South Korea’s dominant trading partner, even at the risk of upsetting the US, which guarantees her country’s security with its nuclear umbrella and 28,500 troops on the ground.

But the relationship has been cast into doubt by South Korea’s decision to discuss hosting a US-made missile defence system. China’s ambassador to Seoul warned last week that the bilateral relationship could be “destroyed in an instant” if a deployment went ahead.

Seoul hit back at China’s pressure, summoning the ambassador and protesting at his outburst. Ms Park’s office pointedly remarked that China “had better recognise” that Seoul would make the missile shield decision in line with its own national security interests.

您已阅读23%(936字),剩余77%(3111字)包含更多重要信息,订阅以继续探索完整内容,并享受更多专属服务。
版权声明:本文版权归FT中文网所有,未经允许任何单位或个人不得转载,复制或以任何其他方式使用本文全部或部分,侵权必究。
设置字号×
最小
较小
默认
较大
最大
分享×