2025.09.26

• Europe & Americas

Trump 2.0 and the U.S.-South Korea Alliance by Kohtaro Ito(Geoeconomic Briefing)

The progress made at last month’s Oval Office meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and South Korean President Lee Jae Myung was palpable, with Lee leaving Washington with security assurances and one of the best tariff deals of any U.S. trading partner. Since then, however, the arrests of hundreds of South Korean citizens in a U.S. immigration raid on a Hyundai car battery factory in Georgia has shaken that progress and shown just how unpredictable relations with Trump 2.0 can be.