(Seoul/Washington Comprehensive News) It is reported that after China prohibits Chinese operators from purchasing American chip company Micron Technology (Micron) products on the grounds of national security, the South Korean government will avoid fishermen from gaining profit from China, so as not to facing the United States and South Korea.The relationship is friction.
According to Bloomberg, sources said that the South Korean government will not encourage South Korean memory chip companies to snatch the market share of Micron Technology Corporation in China.
China is the largest sales market for South Korean semiconductor company Samsung Electronics Company and SK Hynix, and it is also the location of some factories.The U.S. government carried out a series of trade restrictions on China last year, and Korean companies, including Samsung and SK Hynix, can continue to operate in China in obtaining US sanctions exemption.Therefore, the United States has influence on how Seoul's decision to balance the economic exchanges between China and the United States.
The source said that South Korea avoids profitability from the situation where Micron is restricted by China, because it regards the United States as an important long -term partner in its semiconductor industry and does not want to destroy this relationship.
Some analysts pointed out that China ’s ban on Micron’ s ban on South Korea ’s scientific and technological warfare and national security competition, so that South Korea, which has long -term seeking to seek balance in the competition between the two countries.Washington is the primary security partner of Seoul, and China is South Korea's largest trading partner.
Stangarone, senior director of the South Korean Institute of Economics, said that if South Korea does not help fill the vacancies of semiconductor supply left by Micron, China may decide to deploy the US Army's Sad anti -guiding system in 2016 to conductpunish.
According to Reuters, the Ministry of Commerce of China said on the 27th that when China and South Korea participated in the Asia -Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Minister of Trade in Detroit, China and South Korea agreed to strengthen the dialogue and cooperation in the semiconductor industry chain supply chain.
However, the press release of the Korean government does not have chip -related expressions. It only mentioned that the Chinese government is required to stabilize the supply of key raw materials and provide a predictable business environment for Chinese and Korean enterprises.
The US Minister of Commerce Raymond, who attended the meeting, emphasized that the United States "will not tolerate" China's ban on Micron's sacrifice, and claims to work closely with allies to deal with this "economic coercion".
