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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsChina signs defence agreement with South Korea as US angers Seoul with demand for $5bn troop payment
The defence ministers of South Korea and China have agreed to develop their security ties to ensure stability in north-east Asia, the latest indication that Washingtons long-standing alliances in the region are fraying.
On the sidelines of regional security talks in Bangkok on Sunday, Jeong Kyeong-doo, the South Korean minister of defence, and his Chinese counterpart, Wei Fenghe, agreed to set up more military hotlines and to push ahead with a visit by Mr Jeong to China next year to foster bilateral exchanges and cooperation in defence, South Koreas defence ministry said.
Seouls announcement coincided with growing resentment at the $5 billion (£3.9bn) annual fee that Washington is demanding to keep 28,500 US troops in South Korea.
That figure is a sharp increase from the $923 million that Seoul paid this year, which was an 8 per cent increase on the previous year.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/11/18/china-signs-defence-agreement-south-korea-us-angers-seoul-demand/?WT.mc_id=tmg_share_tw
So (p)Resident Shit for Brains alienates another ally. Putin must be so happy.
Johnny2X2X
(19,108 posts)China or Russia steps forward.
We're giving away our influence globally with every move Trump makes.
Newest Reality
(12,712 posts)If people had more general knowledge about what China is doing with AI and total surveillance, (and how that is being spread to other countries allied with them economically and otherwise) Ii would be obvious that China is far more significant as a competing block against the US.
The capacity for the fast-paced technological developments taking place is fomenting a new, digital cold war with China itself and China, in that respect and others, is a formidable opponent, so we may be concerned about Russia, (which is essentially a corrupt Oligarchy) but they may have their reasons for playing the game this way. Either way, we are at risk.
At this rate, Trump is also giving the Chinese government what they want and my estimate is that it is far more dangerous for the USA with long-term, negative implications. So, just add the red to the formula as far as our resident traitor is concerned.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)Nations Rethug Leadership screws it's own people. We are now the number two Nation on the world influence Stage.
Having a Relative Teaching in Vietnam,we get a on the ground idea as to just what is going on in South East Asia.
Folks,they are eating our lunch and making us pay for it.
roamer65
(36,747 posts)US troops will be gone in a year or two and SK will be pushing for SCO membership.
Ilsa
(61,697 posts)But he's giving away our relationship with SK and our influence in Asia.
0rganism
(23,967 posts)good news for SK: i'm sure the Chinese prefer their future real estate to be as undamaged as possible (from their point of view, cf Hong Kong)
well, there goes 75 years of careful and painstaking US foreign policy down the shitter
Ilsa
(61,697 posts)dead then, so it won't be a problem for me. Ivanka will have to fix it."
0rganism
(23,967 posts)Trump: i'll be dead then
Putin (sets Trump's headjar down in front of a TV): not so fast, my friend, you've still got 20000 hours of MSNBC to marathon
roamer65
(36,747 posts)NCjack
(10,279 posts)Trumpian step towards world war.
roamer65
(36,747 posts)I remember reading once that estimates to a workable Japanese thermonuclear device were about 2-3 months.
...and knowing the Japanese attention to detail, the device WILL work.
ismnotwasm
(41,999 posts)Of course they do
moondust
(20,002 posts)China-Pacific Partnership? CPP?
As in Pee-Pee Tape