【英文】彼得国际经济学研究所报告：韩国等“印太经济框架”国家对华贸易依赖提升（19页）

IPEF meshes with Korea’s own Indo-Pacific Strategy, launched in late 2022,  which aims to promote cooperative policies with regional partners in areas critical  to sustained economic development and national security. That initiative covers  security issues, such as nuclear nonproliferation, counterterrorism, maritime  security, cybersecurity, health/pandemic responses, and the “full implementation  of UN sanctions against North Korea,” along with an economic agenda that focuses  on promoting free trade and a rules-based economic order, climate and energy  security, and “customized development cooperation partnerships” (Park 2022).  The strategy promotes a broader vision of economic security and a more proactive  role for Korea in regional affairs than it has played in the past. 

Unlike IPEF, the  Korean policy does not exclude China, recognizing the importance of holding  “high-level strategic dialogues [with China] to address not only the North Korea  issue but also climate change, public health, and cultural exchanges” (Yoon 2002).  This Policy Brief examines progress on the four IPEF pillars, looks at how the  possible outcomes could advance or constrain Korean policy, and assesses the  possible impact of the framework on Korea’s economic relations with its major  trading partners in the region. Given the ongoing and relatively opaque nature of  IPEF negotiations, the conclusions must be considered preliminary and could be  revised after the final texts of the agreements are published and ratified by the  participating countries.