China, South Korea, and Japan agreed to hold a three -nation summit meeting this year.
Senior diplomats in the Three Kingdoms after a meeting on Tuesday (September 26), the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of South Korea said that the three parties agreed to hold a summit as soon as possible and set out to prepare a three -party ministerial meeting.South Korea is the rotating chairman of the China -Japan -South Korea Conference.
According to the Japanese media, the Korean side suggested that the Three -Party Summit was held in December this year.
The Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs only said that the three parties agreed to hold a foreign minister meeting in the next few months, and to hold a leader meeting as soon as possible for the convenience time in the three parties.
Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman Wang Wenbin said at a regular press conference on the day that during the meeting of Seoul, the three parties discussed the steady restart of China, Japan and South Korea.The Three Kingdoms agreed that cooperation meets the common interests of the three parties. Therefore, it should strengthen the pragmatic cooperation in the fields of humanities, economy and trade, scientific and technological innovation, sustainable development, and public health to make new contributions to the peaceful and stability of the region.
South Korean Foreign Minister Park Zhen issued a statement before the Three -Party Meeting saying that China, Japan and South Korea accounted for 20 % of the world's population, and GDP accounted for 25 % of the world's global cooperation.Prosperity has an important role.
Kyodo News reported that the Japanese government supported South Korea at the work level of the Three Kingdoms to earnestly explore the topics that they care about.In the context of the continued Russia and Ukraine War with North Korea's promotion of nuclear plans and missile development, Japan intends to cooperate with South Korea to repair the relationship with China.
The Three Kingdoms originally agreed to hold a three -party summit every year since 2008 to promote regional cooperation, but this initiative has been repeatedly frustrated due to various bilateral disputes and recent crown disease epidemic.The last trip to China, Japan and South Korea's leaders was held in Chengdu, China in December 2019.That meeting was deemed to alleviate the concerns of Beijing and South Korea to strengthen cooperation with Japan and South Korea.
The meeting of senior Chinese and Japanese officials in Seoul means that the Foreign Affairs Department of the Three Kingdoms began to prepare for the three -party summit.According to the practice, after the senior official meeting, the contacts of all parties will gradually be upgraded to a foreign minister talks, and then the summit meeting.The three -party representatives who had talks in Seoul this time were Zheng Bingyuan, assistant minister of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of South Korea, and the Foreign Affairs Consultation officer of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan, and the assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Nongrong.
A senior official in South Korea told Reuters that since the United States deployed the Sad anti -missile system in South Korea in 2017, China and South Korea have been actively seeking cooperation with Japanese and South Korea and trying to arrange meetings.
"I am convinced that China will feel a little uneasy about the increasingly closer trilogy partnerships in South Korea, the United States and Japan ... There is a point of view that they need to properly handle the relationship with South Korea because they know that the year is to Sa that year.The response of Germany was counterproductive and seriously intensified anti -China emotions. "
U.S. Think Tank: Beijing may use the three -party trade cooperation to check and check the US "Friends Outsourcing"
Zhao Tong, a senior researcher at the US Think Capital Cunki International Peace Foundation, believes that Beijing is likely to seek use of tripartite trade cooperation to check the US "Friend-SHORING" policy, and in the same Japan and South KoreaStrengthen communication.
He said that avoiding conflicts and maintaining a stable security relationship with China meet the interests of Japan and South Korea. China is also willing to assist in slowing or even curbing North Korea's nuclear development plan."These common interests have opened up new pipelines for strategic communication, establishing mutual trust and preventing crisis measures."
James Dorsey, a senior researcher at the Nanyang University of Technology Rajelenan International Research Institute, said in an interview with Lianhe Morning Post that China, Japan and South Korea want to alleviate tensions, which can promote the leaders of the Three KingdomsIt's all good things.However, he reminded: "It is always good to talk to the three countries, but don't expect too much about the summit."
He pointed out that the summit will not change the fundamental fact, and the United States and South Korea will still maintain close defense relationships; although South Korea and Japan hope that China will stretch North Korea's missiles and nuclear threats, this should not appear.
Duoxi also believes that there is a solid allies in the United States, Japan and the United States, and South Korea, so "I don't think the United States will worry about the changes in the relationship between ally."
