April 24, 2023

South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol left for the US on Monday for a visit during which he is anticipated to face greater US coercion to serve Washington's strategy to contain China, particularly in the chip sector. 

Chinese experts predicted that Yoon is likely to become more assertive in implementing the US' instructions, but such an approach means South Korea has become "consumables" in the US' Indo-Pacific Strategy at the cost of its own independence and interests, which is unsustainable and self-destructive.

According to a Financial Times report on Monday, the US government has asked the South Korean government to encourage some of its leading chipmakers - Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix - not to fill the market gap if China bans the US-based chip giant Micron Technology from selling chips in the Chinese mainland.

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