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Jun 22 2010

China, S.Korea, Japan wind up tripartite summit

From Fukuoka to Beijing to Jiju, the leaders of China, Japan, and South Korea have met for three times. May 29 to 30, Chinese premier Wen Jiabao, Japanese Prime Minister Hatoyama, and Korean President Lee Myung-bak attended a summit of the three countries. The summit passed related documents including Trilateral Cooperation Vision 2020, depicting the prospect and stage targets of trilateral cooperation, and attracted much attention.

Specifically speaking, the China-Japan-South Korea Summit has reached achievements as follows: 1, Mechanization of the trilateral cooperation; 2, Materialization of the trilateral cooperation; and 3, Extension of the trilateral cooperation.

Noticeably, due to the uneasy development of the Cheonan incident, the summit was also influenced by the tense atmosphere in the Korean Peninsula.

From the strategic standpoint of promoting common development, maintaining regional stability, constructing harmonious Asia, China, Japan and South Korea realized that developing sustainable economic cooperation and realizing common prosperity required a peaceful and stable regional environment.

Regional cooperation among China, Japan, and South Korea has an advantageous foundation, a natural geographical connection, a long history of exchanges, and similar cultural roots. The severe challenges and complex situation brought by the global financial crisis required the three countries to strengthen cooperation, to increase the ability of resisting financial crisis, and to maintain regional stability and economic growth.

However, it is undeniable that Northeast Asian cooperation still has many limiting factors, which can be summarized as “two lacks, two differences, and two uncertainties”, i.e., lack of regional scale and leading power, differences in basic conditions and national goals, and uncertainties in security hotspots and big power relations.

Right now, at issue is whether the three countries can achieve political mutual-trust and how the three countries deal with their relations with the United States.

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