South Korea said that Chinese oil drilling was found in the disputed waters and wanted to take countermeasures, and Zhao Lijian responded

Recently, the dark tide around China has surged
.
Following the continuous promotion of arms purchases and visits to Taiwan by the United States in the direction of the Taiwan Strait, South Korea has also set off a new storm
in the East China Sea.
South Korean media claimed on April 13 that China's maritime mobile oil drilling was found in disputed waters between China and South Korea (the waters of the provisional measures), and the South Korean government has convened a national security conference to prepare to take countermeasures
.

Therefore, the Korean reporter sent a challenge at the regular press conference of the Chinese Foreign Ministry, asking us what we would like to comment
on this.
Spokesman Zhao Lijian said he was unclear about the situation mentioned by the reporter, but China and South Korea have a dialogue and cooperation mechanism on maritime affairs and have maintained good communication relations, and the two countries are currently promoting the delimitation of maritime areas
.

In fact, the Sino-ROK maritime demarcation negotiations began in 1996 and have been held almost every year since then, with a total of 14 rounds
as of 2014.

However, due to the different core demands of the two sides, it has not been possible to reach a consensus, and we insist on dividing the coastline length according to the principle of "equal proportion"
.
However, South Korea has proposed to adopt the principle of "equilocity", that is, the "middle line" of the coastline of the two countries as the boundary
.

However, in recent years, we have actually put aside the controversy, and now that South Korea has suddenly begun to hype up the above issues, it is not clear what the intention is, but considering the previous series of remarks of South Korean President-elect Yoon Seok-yue and his pro-American behavior, I am afraid that some clues
can be sniffed out.

It is reported that an adviser to Yoon Seok-yue's team recently announced that during their visit to the United States, they had asked the United States to deploy strategic weapons such as strategic bombers and nuclear submarines in South Korea, and said that it was to deal with the "northern threat.
"

Therefore, while people are paying attention to a series of US moves in the direction of the Taiwan Strait, we must not fail to notice that US allies are actively cooperating with its China strategy
.

The change in the direction of the peninsula is a symptom of this, and the situation in Northeast Asia and Sino-ROK relations are likely to change as a result
.
In other words, it is necessary to sort out the series of changes in South Korea in recent days and the possible impact on
China.

First of all, during the election campaign, Yoon Seok-yue openly announced that he would invite US aircraft carriers, bombers, and nuclear weapons to South Korea, and also said that he would increase the deployment
of the THAAD anti-missile system.
Aircraft carriers, bombers, and nuclear weapons have become taboo topics
in the field of international military cooperation over the past few decades because of their enormous strategic symbolic significance.

Even America's closest Western ally is highly controversial
internally when it comes to the possibility of U.
S.
deployment of such weapons in their own countries.
The THAAD anti-missile system once dealt a heavy blow to Sino-ROK relations, and since then the two countries have spent a lot of effort to get out of the trough
.

As a politician, Yoon Seok-yue certainly understands the stakes, but he doesn't shy away from it, using it as a selling point in his campaign and is recognized by
South Korean voters.
It can be seen that the overall public opinion atmosphere in Korean society has changed, and the adjustment of
its policies is inevitable.

South Korea's shift is ostensibly its own choice, but in essence the United States is driving everything
behind the scenes.
Especially in the context of the Pentagon's definition of China as the "number one threat", South Korea, as a strategic frontline, is bound to be required to cooperate with the strategic layout
of the Biden administration.
That is to say, as long as the United States does not have a heart for Chinese thieves, various controversial topics involving China will continue to
emerge.

However, it is not easy for the United States to make South Korea completely fall to itself
.
The United States has not put pressure on South Korea for a day or two, and the latter have resisted
to a certain extent in the past.
During his tenure, Moon refused to follow Washington several times to contain China, and he publicly stated that he would not choose a side between China and the United States
.

Moon Jae-in's attitude makes the United States very dissatisfied, but helpless, after all, South Korea cannot be pushed too tightly, so we can see that in the past few years of Moon's administration, China-South Korea relations are actually good
.

Although Yoon Seok-yue is pro-American, he cannot ignore international realities and the huge dependence of
the South Korean economy on China.
South Korea's export share to China far exceeds that of the United States, and its development is closely related
to the Chinese market.
This guarantees that South Korea will not always stand on the side of the United States and fulfill its hegemonic ambitions
by sacrificing its own national interests.

On the other hand, however, we must not be vigilant about whether South Korea, like the countries in the South China Sea, will also make various small moves in the direction of the Yellow Sea, which will have a negative impact on
the overall situation of Sino-ROK relations.

If you pay attention to international news, many people should have an impression of South Korea's arrest of our fishermen, the worst thing is that such incidents occur almost every year, posing a huge threat
to the legitimate interests and lives of our fishermen.

The root of all the problems is that the maritime demarcation between the two countries has not been completed so far, so they continue to take advantage of it, and now South Korea is hyping up China's oil rigs into the so-called disputed area, which is actually a similar operation
.

However, one thing that needs to be made clear is that China does not have any room for compromise on issues involving sovereignty and territory, and can shelve disputes and jointly develop, but sovereignty must be owned by us, which is China's bottom line
.
From this point of view, the appearance of China's oil platform in its own waters is reasonable, South Korea is not qualified to say anything, and it threatens to take countermeasures, so we must see how big a wave they can turn over
.