Japan, China, South Korea to coordinate trilateral summit amid soured ties

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BEIJING (KYODO) - Japanese, Chinese and South Korean foreign ministers on Wednesday (Aug 21) began talks in Beijing in which they are expected to coordinate the schedule for their leaders' summit in China later this year, as tensions between Tokyo and Seoul have been escalating.. Read more at straitstimes.com.

BEIJING - Japanese, Chinese and South Korean foreign ministers on Wednesday began talks in Beijing in which they are expected to coordinate the schedule for their leaders' summit in China later this year, as tensions between Tokyo and Seoul escalate.

Recently, ties between Tokyo and Seoul plunged to the lowest point since their normalisation in 1965 over the Japanese imposition of export control measures in the wake of a string of South Korean court rulings last year ordering compensation for wartime labour. Mr Abe's government has argued that the decisions are against a 1965 bilateral agreement that settled the compensation issue"finally and completely", and criticised Mr Moon's administration for violating an international treaty.

 

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