The foreign ministers of ChinaJapan and South Korea agreed Sunday to resume cooperation and pave the way for a summit of their three leaders, in the latest diplomatic effort to ease tension in the region.
As China and the United States mend their frayed ties, including a summit this month between Presidents Xi Jinping and Joe BidenBeijing is concerned that Washington and its main regional allies are strengthening their ties.
Beijing, Seoul and Tokyo had agreed to hold annual summits since 2008 to bolster diplomatic and economic exchanges, but disputes and the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted the plan. The three leaders last met in 2019.
The diplomats met in the South Korean port of Busan for their first such meeting since 2019, after officials from the three countries agreed in September to organize a trilateral summit at the “most opportune time.”
The three ministers did not specify a timetable for the trilateral summit.
China’s Xi, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol may not be able to meet this year, but a summit is likely in the near future, South Korean national security adviser Cho Tae said. yong, to Yonhap News Television.
The ministers agreed in their talks to advance cooperation in six areas, including security, economy and technology, and promote concrete discussions to prepare for the summit, Japan’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement. (Reporting by Hyonhee Shin in Seoul; contribution by Sam Nussey and Daniel Leussink in Tokyo, Laurie Chen in Beijing and Hyunyoung Yi in Seoul Edited in Spanish by Javier López de Lérida.)
Source: Gestion
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