Long-stalled summit talks between east Asia’s three main powers will resume on Sunday, South Korea said, after Chinese premier Li Keqiang and Japan’s prime minister Shinzo Abe accepted an invitation to three-way talks.
Seoul said on Wednesday that the meeting would focus on regional co-operation in economic and social fields, with a separate meeting between South Korean president Park Geun-hye and Mr Abe to follow on Monday.
The annual trilateral summit was launched in 2008, with a focus on economic co-operation amid the turmoil of that year’s global financial crisis. But it has not been held since 2012, as Japan’s relations with the other two nations frayed over territorial and historical disputes.