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Chinese President Xi Jinping and his South Korean counterpart Park Geun-hye held a summit on Thursday, agreeing upon strengthening Korea-China mutual partnership in the upcoming years.
President Xi visited Seoul on Thursday with his wife and they were sincerely greeted by South Korean officials. After heading to the hotel for a brief rest, Xi had a summit meeting with Park, the fifth since he took office in 2013.
The summit talk went for more than two hours, much longer than pre-scheduled 90-minute. In the meeting, Park and Xi defined the Seoul-Beijing relations as “mature strategic cooperative partnership” and decided to take concrete steps to strengthen the mutual cooperation in various areas. First in terms of security, the two countries reaffirmed their clear opposition to nuclear weapons on the Korean Peninsula. Although they did not specifically mention “North Korea” in the context, the message was clear enough to indicate that Beijing would oppose the nuclear development in Pyoungyang. Park and Xi also agreed to explore ways to resume the long-stalled six-party talks for the North’s denuclearization. For financial and cultural matters, the two leaders were very enthusiastic in vitalizing the mutual cooperation. They decided to finalize currently pending free trade agreement negotiations by the end of this year. Moreover, a direct won-yuan trading market will also be created upon their requests. Park also promised that she would designate next year as a ‘visit China’ year, whereas Xi said he would label 2016 as a ‘visit South Korea” year. Analysts assess that the bilateral meeting went positive in overall. Especially, they believe that China’s outspoken opposition to nuclear North Korea shows a change in Xi’s strategy regarding the Korean peninsula. As a matter of fact, North Korea conducted a third nuclear test in February in defiance of Beijing’s warning not to do so. The fact that Chinese president visited the South ahead of the North, breaking a strict precedent set by his predecessors, clearly displays Xi’s different mindsets in dealing with Korean peninsula issue, experts say. Nevertheless, some say that the bilateral meeting did not go 100% as expected by referring to the face that Xi did not criticize Japanese PM Shinzo Abe’s recent behavior. Few days ago, Japanese PM Abe declared to reinterpret the postwar pacifist Constitution to allow Japanese troops to engage in ‘collective security’ concerns. Such interpretation would give Japanese troops a permission to go offensive if Japan’s allies are under attack. Although both Chinese and Korean government officials have been outrageous in public for this matter, the two leaders did not make any comments on this during the summit. Xi and his wife will stay in South Korea until Friday, July 4th.
Read More at inserbia.info/today/2014/07/south-korea-and-china-agreed-to-strengthen-its-partnership/ © InSerbia News
President Xi visited Seoul on Thursday with his wife and they were sincerely greeted by South Korean officials. After heading to the hotel for a brief rest, Xi had a summit meeting with Park, the fifth since he took office in 2013.
The summit talk went for more than two hours, much longer than pre-scheduled 90-minute. In the meeting, Park and Xi defined the Seoul-Beijing relations as “mature strategic cooperative partnership” and decided to take concrete steps to strengthen the mutual cooperation in various areas. First in terms of security, the two countries reaffirmed their clear opposition to nuclear weapons on the Korean Peninsula. Although they did not specifically mention “North Korea” in the context, the message was clear enough to indicate that Beijing would oppose the nuclear development in Pyoungyang. Park and Xi also agreed to explore ways to resume the long-stalled six-party talks for the North’s denuclearization. For financial and cultural matters, the two leaders were very enthusiastic in vitalizing the mutual cooperation. They decided to finalize currently pending free trade agreement negotiations by the end of this year. Moreover, a direct won-yuan trading market will also be created upon their requests. Park also promised that she would designate next year as a ‘visit China’ year, whereas Xi said he would label 2016 as a ‘visit South Korea” year. Analysts assess that the bilateral meeting went positive in overall. Especially, they believe that China’s outspoken opposition to nuclear North Korea shows a change in Xi’s strategy regarding the Korean peninsula. As a matter of fact, North Korea conducted a third nuclear test in February in defiance of Beijing’s warning not to do so. The fact that Chinese president visited the South ahead of the North, breaking a strict precedent set by his predecessors, clearly displays Xi’s different mindsets in dealing with Korean peninsula issue, experts say. Nevertheless, some say that the bilateral meeting did not go 100% as expected by referring to the face that Xi did not criticize Japanese PM Shinzo Abe’s recent behavior. Few days ago, Japanese PM Abe declared to reinterpret the postwar pacifist Constitution to allow Japanese troops to engage in ‘collective security’ concerns. Such interpretation would give Japanese troops a permission to go offensive if Japan’s allies are under attack. Although both Chinese and Korean government officials have been outrageous in public for this matter, the two leaders did not make any comments on this during the summit. Xi and his wife will stay in South Korea until Friday, July 4th.
Read More at inserbia.info/today/2014/07/south-korea-and-china-agreed-to-strengthen-its-partnership/ © InSerbia News
