US pressures South Korea to support China containment efforts.

South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol is expected to face strong US coercion to serve Washington's strategy to contain China, particularly in the chip sector, during his state visit to the US. The US has asked South Korea to encourage its leading chipmakers, Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix, not to fill the market gap if China bans US-based chip giant Micron Technology from selling chips in the Chinese mainland. Experts warn that such an approach means South Korea has become "consumables" in the US' Indo-Pacific Strategy at the cost of its own independence and interests, which is unsustainable and self-destructive.