{"id":840149,"date":"2025-04-09T16:12:19","date_gmt":"2025-04-09T21:12:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/09\/japan-china-and-south-korea-stage-show-of-unity\/"},"modified":"2025-04-09T16:12:19","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T21:12:19","slug":"japan-china-and-south-korea-stage-show-of-unity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/09\/japan-china-and-south-korea-stage-show-of-unity\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan, China and South Korea stage show of unity"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Ministers from three countries vow to promote peace and cooperation in increasingly uncertain world<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"position-set\">\n<div>\n<p>PUBLISHED : 22 Mar 2025 at 18:45<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bangkokpost.com\/javascript:void(0);\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.bangkokpost.com\/v3\/assets\/images\/icon\/icon-text_size.svg\" alt><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<figure>\n                      <img src=\"https:\/\/static.bangkokpost.com\/media\/content\/20250322\/c1_2985418_250322191127.jpg\"  fetchpriority=\"auto\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi (left) and South Korean Foreign Minister Cho Tae-yul shake hands as Japanese Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya looks on during a joint press conference after their meeting in Tokyo on March 22. (Photo: AFP)\"><figcaption>\n                          Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi (left) and South Korean Foreign Minister Cho Tae-yul shake hands as Japanese Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya looks on during a joint press conference after their meeting in Tokyo on March 22. (Photo: AFP)                        <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>TOKYO &#8211; Japan, South Korea and China agreed on Saturday that peace on the Korean peninsula was a shared responsibility, Seoul\u2019s foreign minister said, in a meeting of the three countries\u2019 top diplomats in which they pledged to promote cooperation.<\/p>\n<p>The talks in Tokyo followed a rare summit in May in Seoul where the three neighbours \u2014 riven by historical and territorial disputes \u2014 agreed to deepen trade ties and restated their goal of a denuclearised Korean peninsula.<\/p>\n<p>But they come as US tariffs loom over the region, and as concerns mount over North Korea\u2019s weapons tests and its deployment of troops to support Russia\u2019s war against Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe reaffirmed that maintaining peace and stability on the Korean peninsula is a shared interest and responsibility of the three countries,\u201d South Korea\u2019s Cho Tae-yul told reporters after the trilateral meeting.<\/p>\n<p>Seoul and Tokyo typically take a stronger line against North Korea than China, which remains one of Pyongyang\u2019s most important allies and economic benefactors.<\/p>\n<p>Japanese Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya said he, Cho, and China\u2019s Wang Yi \u201chad a frank exchange of views on trilateral cooperation and regional international affairs\u2026 and confirmed that we will promote future-orientated cooperation\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe international situation has become increasingly severe, and it is no exaggeration to say that we are at a turning point in history,\u201d Iwaya said at the start of Saturday\u2019s meeting.<\/p>\n<p>This makes it \u201cmore important than ever to make efforts to overcome division and confrontation\u201d, he added.<\/p>\n<p>Wang noted this year marks the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, saying \u201conly by sincerely reflecting on history can we better build the future\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>At two-way talks between Iwaya and Wang on Saturday, the Japanese minister said he had \u201cfrankly conveyed our country\u2019s thoughts and concerns\u201d on disputed islands, detained Japanese nationals and the situation in Taiwan and the South China Sea, among other contentious issues.<\/p>\n<h4>World \u2018full of uncertainty\u2019<\/h4>\n<p>Ukraine was also on the agenda, with Iwaya warning \u201cany attempt to unilaterally change the status quo by force will not be tolerated anywhere in the world\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Climate change and ageing populations were among the broad topics officials had said would be discussed, as well as working together on disaster relief and science and technology.<\/p>\n<p>Iwaya said the trio had \u201cagreed to accelerate coordination for the next summit\u201d between the countries\u2019 leaders.<\/p>\n<p>China and to a lesser extent South Korea and Japan have been hit by tariffs put in place by US President Donald Trump in recent weeks.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday afternoon, Japan and China held their first \u201chigh-level economic dialogue\u201d in six years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe global economy is facing serious changes. Unilateralism and protectionism are spreading\u201d, Wang told reporters, according to Japan\u2019s public broadcaster NHK.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChina and Japan, as major economies, should pursue development and cooperation together with innovative thinking and bring stability to a world full of uncertainty,\u201d Wang said.<\/p>\n<p>Patricia M Kim, a foreign policy fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, said that while \u201ctrilateral dialogues have been ongoing for over a decade\u201d, this round \u201ccarries heightened significance\u201d due to the new US position.<\/p>\n<p>Beijing \u201chas been working actively to improve relations with other major and middle powers amid growing frictions with the United States\u201d, she said.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> Dion Ramage<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bangkokpost.com\/world\/2985418\/japan-china-and-south-korea-stage-show-of-unity\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ministers from three countries vow to promote peace and cooperation in increasingly uncertain world PUBLISHED : 22 Mar 2025 at 18:45 Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi (left) and South Korean Foreign Minister Cho Tae-yul shake hands as Japanese Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya looks on during a joint press conference after their meeting in Tokyo on<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":840150,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1827,22487],"tags":[6052,5586],"class_list":{"0":"post-840149","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-china","8":"category-japan","9":"tag-china","10":"tag-japan"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=840149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840149\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/840150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=840149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=840149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=840149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}