first stop for president biden as he landed here in south korea was the samsung semiconductor plant, they had put a lot of weight on to trying to restore supply lines, supply chains, certainly there has been a semiconductor shortage in america and has had an impact on american manufacturing. one of the themes over the last 24 hours, from president biden, and seconded by president yoon there should be stronger supply chains and economic partnerships with those of like-minded and similar values. certainly what we ve seen is that what president yoon said during his campaign since the beginning of this year, he wanted a more comprehensive partnership with the u.s. if he became president, has come to fruition, he s been talking in his campaigning about wanting to
plant. tell us more about how they plan to, i guess, expand this relationship. i guess covid really highlighted the supply chain crisis, and how there s such a heavy reliance on china. well, that was one of the main things that president biden spoke about first, when he was at the samsung semiconductor plant, talking about the supply chains, the fact that the disruption brought into focus what needed to be done. of course it was partly to do with the covid-19 pandemic as china shut down some of its factories. then there was a severe shortage in america for certain of the critical elements that they needed for manufacturing. so what they re doing with this samsung plant, which will be built in texas bringing some 3,000 jobs according to the white house, they are making sure that they can control supply chains. they can make sure as president biden said that they have these
the korean peninsula. our seoul correspondent jean mackenzie was at that news conference. a huge part ofjoe biden s coming to asia was really to see both his allies here in asia and also to china that he was very much committed, the us is very much committed to playing a role here. when biden came to office, he made clear asia was going to be the cornerstone of his foreign policy and, of course, the war in ukraine has pulled his attention away and this is an attempt to say that his focus is back here on this continent. part of the us strategy now is to try and counter what it sees as a growing chinese dominance here in asia. that means working with its partners like south korea and japan on economic projects, on technological projects. yesterday we had biden go to the enormous samsung semiconductor plant where he committed to investing in the semiconductor industry, this is a key industry here in south korea where china
identified from china particular, how important has this meeting been? a huge part of president biden coming to asia was to say to his allies and also to china that he was very much committed, the us is committed to playing a role here. when he came into office he made clear asia would be a cornerstone of his foreign policy and of course the war in ukraine has pulled attention away and this is an attempt to say his focus is back here. part of the us strategy is to counter what it sees as growing chinese dominance in asia and that means working with its partners like south korea and japan on economic projects, technological projects. yesterday we had present biden go to the enormous samsung semiconductor plant where he committed to investing in the industry which is a key industry
this trip to asia for president biden not unlike his last trip to europe, has really been about trying to present the show of force between the u.s. and allied countries here in asia as russia, of course, continues to invade ukraine. a key goal for the president that we ve seen over the last couple days is to try to highlight over and over again the areas where he says the u.s. and the republican of korea really stand together. of course, the economy has been a major, major issue. there is no question why. we saw the president, as soon as he landed here in korea a couple days ago. the first stop, the first visit he made was to a samsung semiconductor plant where he talked about the chips that south korea is making and trying to address some of these global supply chain issues and how the two countries can work together on the major economic issues and then, of course, north korea has been a major area of focus for the two leaders that met yesterday where they talked