SEOUL: South Korean President Lee Jae Myung will visit China from Sunday to meet counterpart Xi Jinping and deepen cooperation, Seoul and Beijing said. Lee and Xi last met in November on the sidelines of the APEC summit in the South Korean city of Gyeongju. Lee's visit will be the first by a South Korean leader to China since 2019.
The South Korean leader will take part in a summit and a state dinner with Xi in the Chinese capital Beijing from Sunday to Tuesday, his office said. The two leaders will work to "solidify the full restoration of the strategic cooperative partnership", a spokesperson added. And they will seek to deepen cooperation in "supply chains, investment, the digital economy, combating transnational crime and the environment".
Lee will then head to economic powerhouse Shanghai for two days. The South Korean leader has sought a reset in relations with China after years of fraught ties under his predecessor Yoon Suk Yeol. Last month, Lee pitched the Chinese leader as a partner in Seoul's efforts to rekindle frayed ties with the North. — AFP
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