BEIJING: China and South Korea should seek stable ties despite their recent "difficulties", Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi told his South Korean counterpart on Monday (May 13) at a rare meeting in Beijing held amid
South Korea and China 's flags flutter next to Tiananmen Gate in Beijing, China on Dec 15, 2017. BEIJING: China and South Korea should seek stable ties despite their recent"difficulties", Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi told his South Korea n counterpart on Monday at a rare meeting in Beijing held
Relations between Beijing and Seoul came under new stress when South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol said last year that democratically governed Taiwan, which China claims as part of its territory, was a"global issue", not just an issue between China and Taiwan. On Monday, Wang told Cho that China-South Korea relations had"faced difficulties and challenges, which are not in the common interest of both parties and not what China wants to see", according to a Chinese foreign ministry statement.Cho told Wang their countries should work together and"even if there are difficulties, momentum of cooperation should be continued while carefully managing the relations", according to the South Korean foreign ministry.
China has long denied that there are any defectors from North Korea, which counts on Beijing as an ally, and says it follows the law when dealing with people who enter its territory illegally. Ahead of his talks with Wang, however, Cho had said that once mutually beneficial economic ties were seeing intensifying rivalry, and vowed support for businessmen seeking to harness market opportunities in China while minimising any accompanying risks.
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