Chinese Foreign Minster Wang Yi told his South Korean counterpart that he supports Seoul’s efforts to resume three-way summits that include Japan, a sign Beijing is trying to counter a US push to forge closer ties with its two Asian allies.
Wang told Park Jin that China backs South Korea — the current chair of the stalled trilateral summit — in playing an “active role” to push forward cooperation with Japan, according to a statement late Thursday from Beijing.
Park said in the call with Wang that he would like to see a return to shuttle diplomacy between the two, according to a statement from South Korea’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. South Korea’s Presidential Office has said in recent days it is working to resume the summit with China and Japan. Summits among the leaders of the three economic powerhouses haven’t taken place since 2019 due initially to the Covid-19 pandemic. Since then, Japan and South Korea have been encouraged by the US, a mutual ally, to curb high-tech exports to China, their biggest trade partner.
This resulted in boosting joint military drills and a landmark summit last month hosted by President Joe Biden that led to measures to reduce global supply chain exposure to China and moves to bind the trilateral relationship so tightly that it would be hard to unravel.China’s Foreign Ministry criticized the summit, saying it would only “start division and confrontation.”
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