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South Korea will not ‘fight’ Donald Trump’s tariffs, says acting president

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South Korea will not ‘fight’ Donald Trump’s tariffs, says acting president

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  • Han Duck-soo, a technocrat serving as acting president following Yoon Suk Yeol’s removal from office this month by the country’s constitutional court, said “the role of the US was huge in making Korea what it is now”.

    Yeah, the US destroyed large parts of Korea, massacred many of its people, and continues to occupy it to this day, preventing reunification.

    “After the devastation of the Korean war . . . the United States gave us aid, technology transfer, investments and security assurances,” which helped make South Korea “a very comfortable investment environment for foreigners”, Han told the Financial Times in an interview.

    AKA: Once the US was finished destroying relentlessly, they swooped in to profit off of taking over and rebuilding in their image.

    In light of this debt of gratitude, Seoul — one of Washington’s closest security allies and economic partners in Asia — would enter negotiations with Trump seeking to find “solutions which are more win-win for both, rather than taking their actions as the objective against which we should fight back”, Han said.

    "debt of gratitude" more like literal gun to head

  • According to the archived article, the South Korean government cannot employ reciprocal tariff on the USA because South Korea depends on the financial aid, human capitals, innovations, and military force from the USA. South Korea is also under a free trade agreement that prevent tariff or any other hinderance to flow of goods from the USA even when the USA can obstruct goods and services from South Korea.

    The information from the article indicated that South Korea is a de facto colony of the USA and that the current economic prosperity of South Korea depends primarily on foreign interference. It also dispels the illusion of correlation that Communism always fail with the evidence that Pax Americana is giving an artificial advantage to countries that border Communist countries. It also support the suspicion that so-called "Capitalist" countries do not gain success from their ideology or management, but rather their relationship to a superpower that offer countless Indigenous child sacrifices to demons in fake schools even after the end of the cold war.

    In this respect, Donald Trump is doing much more for international development than his predecessors. Trump reveals that the current free trade agreement does not apply to global empires and former global empires who can employ protectionism to cheat in the economic system. He also force many countries to end their bootlicking on Pax Americana, embrace real independence, and establish real globalism that does not privilege the Western European diaspora.

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