“It's clear that the Biden administration is focused on strategic competition with China as a primary foreign policy objective, or as a primary frame for thinking about the challenges it faces in the world. It was very intentional that it opened its foreign policy approach in that way [first two leaders to visit the US - the Japanese Yoshihide Suga followed by the South Korean Moon Jae-in]. The US sees South Korea as a like-minded country, a democracy, a security ally… which basically means the US thinks South Korea has already made a choice,” Snyder explained. “Basically what they have been doing is to cooperate under the surface with the US but not necessarily publicly. They’re like a student that aces the written exam but is deeply afraid of class participation.”
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