South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol got out his golf clubs for the first time in eight years as he prepares to meet Donald Trump in person.
South Korea n President Yoon Suk Yeol has pulled out his clubs “for the first time in eight years,” his office told NBC News, in an effort to curry favor with the president-electAs foreign governments prepare to deal with a second Trump administration, at least one key U.S. ally is hoping to make headway on the fairway. “got out his golf clubs for the first time in eight years and resumed his golf practice” as he gets ready to meet President-elect in Florida, New Jersey, Virginia and elsewhere.
“He flattered Trump, he gave him gold golf clubs, he nominated him for a Nobel Peace Prize,” he said, adding, “The thing that was remarkable to me about Abe is he was willing to sacrifice his own rather large ego to make space and room for Trump’s big ego.” — “could be the Abe of a Trump 2.0 administration, at least from East Asia,” Jeremy Chan, a senior analyst for China and Northeast Asia at Eurasia Group, said in the same briefing.
“But a lot of that sort of sanguine attitude, I think, belies real disquiet beneath the surface” in terms of security and the economy, Chan said. Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe with Trump before playing a round of golf in Chiba, Japan, in 2019
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