17 September 2015

News Story: Xi seeks new NE Asia order with China-Japan-S Korea summit

President Xi Jinping of China's plans to organize a trilateral meeting with President Park Geun-hye of South Korea and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan as early as the end of next month accentuates his desire to establish a new Beijing-led order in Northeast Asia, says South Korean newspaper Chosun Ilbo.

On Tuesday afternoon, a meeting of deputy director general-level diplomats at the Trilateral Cooperation Secretariat (TCS) was held in Seoul, with new TCS secretary-general Yang Houlan announcing that the next China-Japan-South Korea trilateral leadership summit is being organized for the end of October and the start of November.

"If the summit can be opened, I think it will be a very important meeting because it will open a new road for trilateral cooperation and push trilateral cooperation to a new height," Yang said.

Read the full story at Want China Times