Ambassador Dai Bing, the Chinese language envoy to South Korea, arrives on the Ministry of International Affairs in Seoul on Dec. 30, 2024, to submit his credentials after being appointed. (Yonhap)
The Chinese language Embassy to South Korea reacted sharply on Sunday to back-to-back remarks by American officers suggesting that the modernization of the South Korea-US alliance is pushed by the necessity to comprise China. The embassy expressed its hope that the US is not going to “sow discord or decide a battle.”
The Chinese language Embassy made these feedback in a press release on Sunday titled “Q&A with the spokesperson of the Chinese language Embassy about US officers’ unacceptable remarks.”
“We now have taken heed of the associated feedback made by the performing ambassador on the US Embassy to Korea and a high-ranking official within the US navy, and we specific our shock and discomfort with them,” the assertion mentioned.
China was voicing its displeasure about US Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Daryl Caudle’s remark throughout a latest go to to Korea that it was a “pure expectation” for Korean nuclear-powered submarines for use “to counter China” and a touch upon Sunday by Kevin Kim, the performing US ambassador to Korea, about “what has occurred within the Yellow Sea not too long ago.”
“Everyone knows that our safety challenges are evolving each on the [Korean] peninsula and within the [Indo-Pacific] area,” Kim mentioned, including that there’s a want for a coordinated response.
“That’s the reason President Trump and President Lee agreed to modernize the US-ROK alliance, enhance Korea’s protection spending and search new capabilities, similar to nuclear-powered submarines,” he elaborated, utilizing the abbreviated type of South Korea’s official title, the Republic of Korea.
The Chinese language Embassy to Korea mentioned, “Not way back, summits had been held in Korea between the leaders of China and the US, of China and Korea, of Korea and the US. These remarks by American bureaucrats are usually not according to the spirit of these leaders’ agreements. We hope the US will do extra to profit the China-US, China-Korea and Korea-US relationships and never sow discord or decide a battle.”
By Web optimization Younger-ji, employees reporter
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