China is renewing its criticism of this weekend's summit among the leaders of the U.S., Japan and South Korea, saying no country should 'seek its own security at the expense of the security interests of others and of regional peace and stability.'
China is renewing its criticism of this weekend's summit among the leaders of the U.S., Japan and South Korea, saying no country should "seek its own security at the expense of the security interests of others and of regional peace and stability."
The summit at the the rustic Camp David presidential retreat seeks to further tighten security and economic ties between Japan and South Korea, two nations whose historically frosty relations have rapidly thawed over the last year as they share concerns about China's assertiveness in the Pacific and North Korea's persistent nuclear threats.
Beijing has made clear the current rapprochement between the two was something it very much did not want to see and its top diplomat, Wang Yi, last month made a clumsy and much-criticized appeal to racial-cultural similarities between Chinese, Japanese and Koreans as an alternative to partnering with the West.
The Japan-South Korea relationship is a delicate one because of differing views of World War II history and Japan's colonial rule over the Korean Peninsula. Past efforts to tighten security cooperation between Seoul and Tokyo have progressed by fits and starts.
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