China Suspends Visas for South Korean Travelers In Retaliation for ROK Coronavirus Testing of Chinese Travelers
Not a good look for the Chinese government, but obviously they have long ago quit caring what the ROK thinks of them. They just look at the ROK as a country they can bully which they are attempting to do so again:
China announced the suspension Tuesday of its short-term visa service for South Koreans in retaliation against Seoul’s regulations on entries from the neighbor with increasing COVID-19 infections.
The Chinese Embassy in Seoul made public the decision in a post on its WeChat account, citing an “instruction” from Beijing for its embassy and consulates to stop issuing visas, including visits for trade, tourism and medical care purposes.
China plans to “adjust” the measure in accordance with the situation in which South Korea cancels its “discriminatory entry restrictions against China,” the embassy said.
Yonhap
You can read more at the link, but fortunately there is probably few South Koreans that want to travel to China at this time.
No, but you’re missing the point. This also stops business visas, which means Korean businessmen can’t go to China to run Korean businesses and factories in China. Korean investors in China were already struggling with shenanigans from both China and the US, being pulled and ripped apart from both sides, and this should just about put a nail in their coffins.
Koreans have been robbed blind by the CCP for over 70 years.
Korea Man gets +1 for good observation.
Korea needs to make Korea more attractive than China for doing buisness and these problems wouldn’t exist.
Sure. But that still won’t stop the US from stealing jobs from Korea and blackmailing it.
Korea needs to diversify into products that can’t be blackmailed into being made in America or made cheaper outside of Korea.
The era of cars, memory chips, and LCDs are coming to an end… just as clothes, shoes, and VCRs did some years ago.
Korea can move past this or wind up like the big Japanese companies of the 80s wondering why nobody wants an amazing tube TV, a 3-chip camcorder, or a boom box with auto reverse and TWO cassette decks.
Military hardware, AI, quantum computing, space technology, fusion… are a few directions Korea might go in.
You can whine about America and China until tigers start smoking again or you can recognize the world always changes and Korea is in a fantastic position to take advantage of this change more than most countries.
The only problem is there are no more jobs glueing soles on shoes. If you aren’t a rocket scientist or a quantum mechanic, you will be serving them their fries… or watching a robot do it from the unemployment line.
So you all better get on the right side of the Great Reset.
Then why is the US so determined to confiscate Korea’s memory chips, cars, and EV battery manufacturing for itself if they’re all outdated like LCDs and VCRs? Why do they all have to be Made-in-America now?
But let’s amuse ourselves and let’s take military hardware now.
The US now getting worried that they’re losing a monopoly on arms sales to the Middle East, as South Korea muscles in
Could South Korea-Saudi Arabia Military Ties Challenge US Hegemony?
https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/saudi-arabia-south-korea-us-military-ties-hegemony-challenge-could
So the US is already nervously watching as one of its biggest arms markets, South Korea, evaporates right in front of its eyes. But even worse, South Korea is now eating into the US market share and taking away customers from the US. How long do you think Uncle Sam will continue to just sit and watch and let this continue to happen? The military industry is no different. Korea is a very important country for semiconductors, EV batteries, and nuclear plants – industries that the US clearly sees as crucial strategic industries for the US. The US wants to take those manufacturing and production from Korea for good reasons.
Space technology is hugely expensive and they don’t bring immediate revenues to cover Korea’s huge $32 billion trade deficit. The same goes for quantum computing and fusion – both hard sciences that will take many decades to see any fruit – at least decades away. In the meantime, how do you propose South Korea cover the deficits? With no natural resources to sell, if Korea can’t export its goods, it’s doomed to financially collapse – something that America is doing its best to ensure happens through its trade and economic policies. Rember Korea is not like the US, they can’t just print money as it pleases.
You might as well have said Korea should just go back to making wigs, shoes, and clothes. That would have been more realistic than what you proposed.