This virtual roundtable builds on previous and ongoing research and events, as part of our Korea Foundation Korea Fellowship. This five-year fellowship is funded by The Korea Foundation and Yeosijae (Future Consensus Institute).
Specific questions to be discussed during this event include:
• What is China’s role in the denuclearization process on the Korean peninsula?
• With the Trump administration apparently willing to consider troop re-deployments from the peninsula and increasingly pressuring South Korea to assume a substantively increased share of host-nation support, how might the Moon administration respond and what implications might this have for security relations between China and South Korea?
• How does the China-South Korea-Japan trilateral element come into play?
• How will the outcome of the November presidential elections affect US relations with China and the ROK?
• What are the implications for the ROK’s relations with both China and the US should Kim Jong-un’s health deteriorate?
• How should Korean peninsula issues be handled while US-China relations are intensifying?
• What should be Seoul’s regional strategy amid US-China competition?
Participants
Moderators:
John Nilsson-Wright, Korea Foundation Korea Fellow, Asia-Pacific Programme, Chatham House
Yu Jie, Senior Research Fellow on China, Asia-Pacific Programme, Chatham House
