In coverage of the Looking Forward: The Future of United States-Japan-Korea Trilateral Relations conference held by the Center for Strategic and International Studies and the Korea Foundation in Washington, the Taiwan Times shares the assessment by Eun A Jo, Rosenwald Postdoc with the Davidson Institute for Global Security, that South Korea’s new government favors economic cooperation over a defense alliance with Taiwan. Jo notes South Korea’s focus on North Korean spillover effects and limited capacity for a Taiwan contingency.
Read it here.
I don’t see the current South Korean administration… being interested in any kind of explicit commitment to defend Taiwan.
