China Considers Summit with South Korea at November APEC
Get the Geopolitics newsletter
Daily geopolitics — wars, elections, sanctions, the diplomatic moves that move markets. Free.
- Wang Yi told South Korean Foreign Minister Cho Hyun during a visit to Seoul that Beijing is "actively considering" a leaders' summit at the APEC summit in Shenzhen in November, according to Seoul's Foreign Ministry.
- Wang Yi invited Cho Hyun to visit China, and Cho accepted the invitation.
- The two countries forecast total bilateral travel to exceed 10 million visits and agreed to expand people-to-people exchanges.
- The ministers agreed on cooperation in service and investment negotiations under the South Korea-China FTA, supply-chain stabilization, cultural exchange, and the adoption of Chinese pandas.
- Cho Hyun urged China to play a constructive role in bringing North Korea back to dialogue as soon as possible; Wang said China has been "consistent" on the Korean Peninsula and hoped for peaceful coexistence of the two Koreas.
Why it matters: A potential leaders' summit at November's APEC gives Seoul a diplomatic opening on North Korea — Cho urged Wang to bring Pyongyang back to dialogue, while both sides locked in supply-chain, FTA, and panda-exchange cooperation anchored by a forecast of 10 million bilateral visits.
Ask SkimNews
