- To reestablish collaboration for a trilateral summit, the foreign ministers of China, Japan, and South Korea are gathering.
- Xi and Biden met as part of the efforts to mend fences between the three nations.
- This is the first time the three elite diplomats have met in Busan since 2019.
To reestablish collaboration and get ready for a trilateral summit, the foreign ministers of China, Japan, and South Korea are gathering in Busan.
Presidents Xi Jinping and Joe Biden met as part of the efforts to mend fences between the three nations. Beijing, though, is worried about the fact that Washington and its allies in the region are fortifying their trilateral cooperation.
Trilateral Collaboration
The COVID-19 pandemic and bilateral disputes have impeded Beijing, Tokyo, and Seoul’s plan to hold annual summits since 2008. This is the first time the three elite diplomats have met in Busan since 2019.
The three nations’ top officials decided in September to set up a trilateral summit as soon as possible. Following his meeting with Wang-Yi of China and Yoko Kamikawa of Japan, South Korean Foreign Minister Park Jin agreed to step up responses to Pyongyang and Moscow’s arms deals while denouncing North Korea’s launch of its first spy satellite.
When a South Korean court ordered Japan to pay compensation to a group of women forced to work in Japanese brothels during the war, Kamikawa referred to the decision as “extremely regrettable” and asked the South Korean government to take the necessary action.
