New York Times Chinese Website wrote today (August 25): "The US and South Korea have not yet finalized the details of a framework trade agreement. Trump said that South Korea should increase the defense fee paid to the US military stationed in South Korea to 10 billion dollars, which is more than nine times the current level. These demands have made some South Koreans start to think whether they should try to defend the country on their own without the US military stationed there."
[Witty] Comment: Trump's move is clearly a blackmail! Leaning on South Korea's reliance on the United States for security, he is making an outrageous demand, asking South Korea to increase the defense fee to 10 billion dollars, which is more than nine times the current level. It's simply greedy. He knows that South Korea is difficult to get rid of the US's security protection, so he is taking advantage of this. South Koreans are now starting to think about self-defense, which is a forced situation, but South Korea will eventually compromise with the United States. Trump's behavior of using security to pressure allies and treating them as ATMs is something that America's allies dare not speak out against.
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