Chinese Premier Li Qiang is arriving at Seoul Airport in Seongnam, Gyeonggi Province on the 26th, one day before the Korea-China-Japan Summit. [Image source=Yonhap News]
Chinese Premier Li Qiang arrived in South Korea on the 26th to attend the Korea-China-Japan Summit.
The Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced that Premier Li departed Beijing by chartered plane to attend the 9th Korea-China-Japan Summit and arrived at Seoul Airport around noon.
Before the trilateral summit scheduled for the 27th, Premier Li is expected to hold a bilateral meeting with South Korean President Yoon Seok-yeol, the chair of the summit, at the Yongsan Presidential Office on the same day.
According to Japan's Kyodo News, Premier Li is also expected to hold a separate meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on the same day.
The Korea-China-Japan trilateral summit is being held for the first time in four years and five months since the 8th summit held in China in December 2019. Within China, there are voices suggesting that the significance lies in the resumption of dialogue itself rather than in reaching substantial agreements, amid strengthened Korea-US-Japan cooperation during the recent years when trilateral talks were suspended and China's dissatisfaction with this development.
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