{"id":80547,"date":"2024-05-26T20:51:07","date_gmt":"2024-05-26T20:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/china-japan-premiers-arrive-in-seoul-for-summit-daily-times\/"},"modified":"2024-05-26T20:51:07","modified_gmt":"2024-05-26T20:51:07","slug":"china-japan-premiers-arrive-in-seoul-for-summit-daily-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/china-japan-premiers-arrive-in-seoul-for-summit-daily-times\/","title":{"rendered":"China, Japan premiers arrive in Seoul for summit – Daily Times"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"\"The premiers of China and Japan arrived in Seoul Sunday for their first trilateral summit in five years, which is expected to focus on economic issues rather than sensitive geopolitics.<\/p>\n

Chinese Premier Li Qiang and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida are scheduled to meet with South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol separately Sunday afternoon in the South Korean capital.<\/p>\n

On Monday the three leaders will hold a trilateral meeting, the first such encounter in five years, partly thanks to the pandemic but also due to long-strained ties between Seoul and Tokyo.<\/p>\n

Yoon, who took office in 2022, has sought to bury the historical hatchet with former colonial power Japan in the face of rising threats from nuclear-armed North Korea.<\/p>\n

Since the last trilateral summit \u201cour regional and global landscapes have vastly changed,\u201d Kishida said before departing for Seoul, saying the new meeting was \u201chighly significant\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would like to have an honest conversation with President Yoon Suk Yeol and Premier Li Qiang, and agree on working-level cooperation in a forward-looking manner,\u201d he said, adding he hoped the meeting would be a \u201csuccess\u201d and revitalise three-way diplomacy. Yoon is set to hold a bilateral meeting with Li, who is making his first visit to South Korea since taking office in March 2023, followed by one with Kishida.<\/p>\n

The three leaders will have a dinner together Sunday evening.<\/p>\n

But experts have warned that due to the three countries\u2019 starkly divergent positions on key issues including Pyongyang\u2019s nuclear threats and growing ties with Russia, it will be hard for them to form a consensus.<\/p>\n

But Seoul and Tokyo, which are key regional security allies of China\u2019s arch-rival Washington, are looking to improve relations and trade, plus ease tension with Beijing, experts say.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe importance of cooperation between the three nations, which account for 20 percent of the world\u2019s population and trade, 25 percent of total GDP, cannot be overemphasised,\u201d South Korea\u2019s Hankook Ilbo said in an editorial. \u201cIt is of utmost importance that the three nations have the willingness to overcome differences of views.\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite North Korea conducting ever-more advanced weapons tests and China staging military drills around Taiwan, experts expect the summit to ignore security issues and seek common ground for easy diplomatic wins.<\/p>\n

China is North Korea\u2019s largest trading partner and a key diplomatic ally, and it has previously resisted condemning Pyongyang for its weapons tests, instead criticising joint US-South Korea drills.<\/p>\n

Pyongyang on Sunday slammed what it claimed were \u201cwartime\u201d level spy planes and boat missions by Seoul and Washington, threatening to take \u201cimmediate action\u201d if its sovereignty was breached.<\/p>\n

An official from Seoul\u2019s presidential office said North Korea-related issues \u201care difficult to resolve cleanly and quickly in a short time\u201d, so the summit will focus more on economic cooperation. \u201cA joint declaration is currently being discussed,\u201d he said, adding that Seoul would try to include security issues \u201cto a certain extent\u201d.<\/p>\n

One area where Seoul and Tokyo may find themselves at odds is a business dispute over ownership of the popular messaging app LINE, developed by South Korea\u2019s Naver and which is now under pressure from Tokyo to sell its controlling share in Japan.<\/p>\n

According to broadcaster NHK, Kishida is likely also press Li about China\u2019s suspension of Japanese seafood imports. China stopped accepting Japanese fish shipments last year when Tokyo began releasing waste water from the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant. Leif-Eric Easley, a professor at Ewha University in Seoul said the summit would involve \u201cshallower cooperation\u201d than the level of foreign policy alignment between Tokyo, Seoul and Washington.<\/p>\n

Even so, it could \u201cmake incremental progress across many functional issues among Northeast Asian neighbours,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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The premiers of China and Japan arrived in Seoul Sunday for their first trilateral summit in five years, which is expected to focus on economic issues rather than sensitive geopolitics. 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