China’s Seoul focus

Chinese General Secretary Xi Jinping hosted South Korean President Lee Jae Myung in Beijing on Monday, just one week after Chinese Communist Party forces conducted military drills around Taiwan. South Korea and Taiwan are U.S. allies, but Myung said he is aiming for a “new phase” in South Korea’s relationship with China and is seeking “feasible alternatives together for peace on the Korean Peninsula.” This is a significant open door to China and a mild rebuke of the U.S. Xi said he wants to “increase exchanges and maintain frequent communication” and for the two countries to “further align their development strategies … and achieve more cooperation results in emerging fields such as artificial intelligence.” Cooperation between Asian powers is prophesied in the Bible and explained in Russia and China in Prophecy, which states: “Watch for coming agreements between Russia, China, Japan, South Korea and others to harness the maverick North Korea and muscle the U.S. out of Oriental diplomacy in Korea and Taiwan.”