The foreign ministers of Japan, China and South Korea held their first in-person talks in more than four years on Sunday, with the three agreeing to hold a trilateral leaders¡¯ summit at the ¡°earliest¡± possible time.
Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa, South Korea¡¯s Park Jin and China¡¯s Wang Yi spent around 100 minutes in talks that focused on a broad swath of issues, amid Beijing¡¯s growing regional military assertiveness and Tokyo and Seoul¡¯s deepening security ties with Washington, their mutual ally.
The trilateral talks in Busan, South Korea, were seen as a steppingstone toward reviving the three-way summit between the leaders of the trio of Asian powerhouses, but progress on hammering out a specific date appeared elusive.
With your current subscription plan you can comment on stories. However, before writing your first comment, please create a display name in the Profile section of your subscriber account page.