/ world today news/ After a break of more than four years, the foreign ministers of China, Japan and South Korea renewed the mechanism of their trilateral meetings. On November 26, their tenth meeting was held in the city of Busan, South Korea. They reached a number of consensuses on deepening cooperation and exchanged views on international and regional issues of mutual interest. According to the media, the meeting will probably create an atmosphere and conditions for the leaders of the three countries to meet at the next stage.
In the past few years, some major countries outside the region have been provoking confrontation and division in Asia, pursuing their own geopolitical interests. This, together with the impact of the COVID-19 epidemic, has caused the mechanism for the tripartite meetings of the foreign ministers of China, Japan and South Korea to be suspended. Observers point out that the recent meeting between Xi Jinping and Joe Biden in San Francisco reached an important consensus, providing the external conditions for the resumption of high-level diplomatic exchanges between China and Japan and China and South Korea. More importantly, given the slow global economic recovery, China, Japan and Korea share common interests and need to deepen practical cooperation and maintain the stability of industrial chains and supply chains.
At the meeting, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi made five proposals: the sooner the resumption of negotiations on the establishment of a free trade area between China, Japan and South Korea, the strengthening of cross-border science and technology cooperation, the expansion of cultural exchanges and cooperation on coping with the problem of population aging that all three countries face.
China has always viewed its neighbors Japan and South Korea as partners, and hopes that they will show the same willingness, determination and strategic independence for the comprehensive restoration of trilateral cooperation.
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