{"id":19719,"date":"2023-11-29T01:06:27","date_gmt":"2023-11-28T23:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/?p=19719"},"modified":"2023-11-29T01:06:32","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T23:06:32","slug":"top-diplomats-of-china-south-korea-and-japan-meet-after-4-year-hiatus-agree-to-resume-trilateral-leaders-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/top-diplomats-of-china-south-korea-and-japan-meet-after-4-year-hiatus-agree-to-resume-trilateral-leaders-summit\/","title":{"rendered":"Top diplomats of China, South Korea and Japan meet after 4-year hiatus, agree to resume trilateral leaders\u2019 summit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The foreign ministers of China, Japan, and South Korea held their first in-person talks in more than four years in the South Korean port city of Busan. They agreed to lay the foundation for the first leaders\u2019 summit in four years, setting aside the regional tensions.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meeting after a four-year hiatus, the top diplomats from China, South Korea, and Japan, agreed on November 26, 2023, to revive cooperation among the Asian neighbors in diverse domains, especially economic cooperation and security.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, Japanese Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa, and South Korea\u2019s Park Jin spent around 100 minutes in talks that focused on a broad range of issues. They agreed to expand cooperation in science and technology, economy and trade, sustainable development, health, security, and people-to-people exchange.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wang Yi emphasized the significance of respecting diverse developmental paths and urged the three nations to reinitiate talks on a China-Japan-ROK free trade agreement<\/span><\/a>, ensuring the continuation of regional economic integration. Chinese foreign minister stressed the need for enhanced collaboration in cutting-edge scientific and technological domains, including big data, blockchain, and artificial intelligence. He underscored the importance of joint efforts to uphold the stability of industrial and supply chains among China, Japan, and the ROK.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi (right) South Korean Foreign Minister Park Jin (center) and Japanese Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa attend the trilateral foreign ministers’ meeting in Busan, South Korea, November 26, 2023. (Image Credit: AP)<\/sup><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

This trilateral meeting was the first between the three foreign ministers since 2019. Beijing, Seoul, and Tokyo had agreed to hold annual summits since 2008 to bolster diplomatic and economic exchanges, but regional tensions and the COVID pandemic disrupted plans. <\/p>\n\n\n\n


Expected trilateral leaders\u2019 summit<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The top diplomats of South Korea, China, and Japan agreed to expedite preparations to resume the long-stalled summit among the leaders of the three countries at an \u201cearliest, mutually convenient<\/span><\/a>\u201d. Chinese President Xi Jinping, South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol, and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida would possibly meet early next year, diplomats said without sharing a specific timing of the expected meeting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The three ministers \u201creaffirmed the agreement to hold the summit, the pinnacle of the trilateral cooperation system, at the earliest, mutually convenient time and agreed to accelerate the preparations necessary for the summit,\u201d South Korean Foreign Minister Park Jin told reporters. Park added that the three countries shared the understanding that resuming the three-way summit is \u201cvital to the restoration and normalization of the tripartite cooperation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

China, Japan and the South Korea on Sunday agreed to create conditions for a leaders’ meeting as foreign ministers of the three countries met in the South Korean port city of Busan.https:\/\/t.co\/KVMMZqUGSX<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/8fweQyQLw9<\/a><\/p>\u2014 CCTV+ (@CCTV_Plus) November 27, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote>