Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi offers to help Japan and South Korea to settle trade dispute

China promised on Wednesday to accelerate free-trade negotiations with South Korea and Japan after offering to help mediate the bitter trade conflict between Tokyo and Seoul.

The offer was made at the annual trilateral meeting between the countries, with China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi urging Tokyo and Seoul to resolve their confrontation through dialogue.

Wang met his South Korean and Japanese counterparts Kang Kyung-wha and Taro Kono at Gubei Water Town near the Great Wall in Beijing at the start of three-day summit the previous day.

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