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On November 26th, diplomats from South Korea, China, and Japan met to decide on possible ways of bringing their leaders together for another trilateral summit. While they are bound by strong economic and cultural common sense, accounting for nearly a quarter of world’s GDP, efforts to tighten up trilateral cooperation has been challenging because of controversies, such as colonial invasion by Japan and competition in political matters between China and American superpower.
In a bid to restart the trilateral summit, the foreign ministers from these three countries met in Busan located south-east in South Korea and shared their positions on preparations and the best working strategy towards improvement of three-way cooperation and other international issues according to Korea’s Foreign Ministry
At the end of September, representatives from the three countries consented to meet for the tripartite summit at a “convenient time.
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They had initially scheduled annual stand-alone tripartite summits since their first one took place in 2008. Nonetheless, their summit has been on and off for a period, and it stopped in 2019. These countries have different types of bonds with a lot of tricky and touchy topics.
The United States has over 80,000 people in its troops within south Korea and Japan who serve as essential military allies. Chinese has been highly sensitive to its ascendancy in Asia and their recent trilateral security cooperation efforts with the US have drawn suspicion.
Although China has faced significant problems in relation to cooperation with South Korea and Japan, some observers have argued that President Xi Jinping and President Joo Bidden’s cordiality during an informal discussion held a few weeks ago could pave the way for the leaders of Seul,
The international society stands on the cusp of a new era with big shifts. JAPAN’S foreign minister Yoko Kamikawa expects his discussion on the strategic importance of Japan-China-South Korea Cooperation. On Sunday, it was expected that the meeting would discuss issues such as North Korean spy satellite launch, Russian-Ukraine war and resumption of trilateral summit. Officials from Japan noted earlier on that no joint statement was anticipated in post-meeting conference; however, the three ministers had talks in the margins of the event.
Later after Minister Kamikawa’s meeting with Chinese FM Wang Yi on 25th Nov, Japan raised a demand against Beijing asking them to withdraw their ban on seafood import from Japan and response was Tokyo’s release of discharged treated radioactive water to sea. The Chinese Foreign Ministry reported that Wang stated on behalf of China opposition to Japan’s “irresponsible action” to release the wastes and demanded to establish external verification mechanism.
Over the past few years, relations between Japan and South Korea have taken a downturn because of disagreements traceable to Japanese occupation of the Korean Peninsula from the First World War until the Second World War. Nevertheless, there have been signs of thaw between the two governments in recent months after realising that they face common concerns not only with regard to North Korea’s atomic ambitions, but also a few others.
However, a Korean Court has lately commanded Japan to remunerate the Korea individuals sexually assaulted by Japanese armed forces at that time. Japanese Minister of foreign affairs Ms Kamaki has shown great concerns stating that such decision was intolerable. This decision on the part of the court became a vivid symbol pointing at the still existing historical complications, which continue to affect their relations.
Bilateral talks between Kamikawa and Park Jin occurred on Nov 26 where they spoke about the court decision and denounced North Korea’s spy satellite launch promising to revitalize trilateral cooperation with China. Park asked for positive cooperation from China on persuading North Korea on ceasing provocations and moving ahead with denuclearization when he spoke with Wang Yi at a meeting. China’s position being that of an important ally of North Korea causes suspicions regarding full implementation of UN sanctions on North Korea and provision of covert aid to the state.
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