Since the Korea-U.S. summit, the South Korean government has been promoting high-level strategic dialogue with the U.S. on economy, security and technology as well as political and military sectors. Through close ties with the United States, Korea will be able to expand its role in the Indo-Pacific cooperation. On the other hand, however, it remains an important and difficult task to maintain stable Korea-China relations without unnecessarily provoking China amid increasing power competition between the U.S. and China. In this JPI PeaceNet series, Sojeong Lee and Krista E. Wiegand (University of Tennessee) examine South Korea’s possible strategies to maximize the benefits of the Korea-U.S. alliance while minimizing the expected costs of relations between Korea and China.
