{"id":18150,"date":"2023-05-01T13:55:47","date_gmt":"2023-05-01T13:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/the-us-centric-hub-and-spoke-relationship-is-untenable-in-the-21st-century-discuss-with-reference-to-south-korea\/"},"modified":"2023-05-01T13:55:47","modified_gmt":"2023-05-01T13:55:47","slug":"the-us-centric-hub-and-spoke-relationship-is-untenable-in-the-21st-century-discuss-with-reference-to-south-korea","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/the-us-centric-hub-and-spoke-relationship-is-untenable-in-the-21st-century-discuss-with-reference-to-south-korea\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThe US-centric hub-and-spoke relationship is untenable in the 21st century\u201d. Discuss with reference to South Korea."},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u25cf The direction is “yes, the US-centric hub-and-spoke system is still tenable in the 21st century.”<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\u25cf <\/span>The main reasons are as follows:<\/span><\/div>\n
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1. North Korea’s nuclear capability is getting stronger, and its aggressiveness is getting more serious. So South Korea still needs a strong alliance with the US, and the US still needs South Korea to respond to North Korea’s aggressiveness.<\/div>\n
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2. However, multilateral alliance system is still not plausible in East Asian countries (Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan) because South Korea and Japan have different major threat perceptions (South Korea -> North Korea, <\/span>Japan -> China). Especially for South Korea, it is difficult to officially designate China as a security threat<\/span>, because of it’s economic interdependence with China.<\/span><\/div>\n
Moreover, Taiwan is not a country with which South Korea and Japan can conclude international agreements because of the One China policy<\/span>. <\/span><\/div>\n

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3. Distrust between South Korea and Japan is still very high.<\/span><\/div>\n
* For the last 12 years, there has been no bilateral summit talk between the neighboring countries until they hold a summit talk in March 2023. And there were no fruitful results at the recent talk in 2023.<\/div>\n
* Koreans are very unhappy that Japan, unlike Germany, does not sincerely apologise for its past and denies its dark past. <\/span>While Japan believes that the 1965 agreement settled the issue, it recognises that it is unfair for South Korea to continue to raise the issue.<\/span><\/div>\n
* The failure of President Yoon Sekyeol to address the issue of past historical disputes during the summit talk has resulted in a significant backlash in South Korea.<\/div>\n
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\u25cf<\/span> Use a lot of the results of the US-South Korea summit talks that happened in the US in April 2023.<\/div>\n
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\u25cf<\/span> Refer to the following required reading:
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Cha, V. D. (2010). Powerplay: Origins of the US alliance system in Asia. <\/span><\/span>International Security<\/i>, <\/span><\/span>34<\/i>(3), 158-196.
<\/span>Cho, I. H. (2018). Downsizing Hegemony: Alliance, Domestic Politics, and American Retrenchment in East Asia, 1969\u20132017. <\/span><\/span>Asian Security<\/i>, <\/span><\/span>14<\/i>(3), 246-262.
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\u25cf<\/span>   Refer to the lecture slide (attached).
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\u25cf The direction is “yes, the US-centric hub-and-spoke system is still tenable in the 21st century.” \u25cf The main reasons are as follows: 1. North Korea’s nuclear capability is getting stronger, and its aggressiveness is getting more serious. So South Korea still needs a strong alliance with the US, and the US still needs South Korea […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"disciplines":[1098],"paper_types":[],"tagged":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/18150"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/questions"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/18150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"disciplines","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/disciplines?post=18150"},{"taxonomy":"paper_types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/paper_types?post=18150"},{"taxonomy":"tagged","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tagged?post=18150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}