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China-South Korea relations
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Hi-tech cooperation key to rebuilding China-South Korea ties, says ambassador

  • Chinese ambassador Xing Haiming builds on leadership talks between Seoul and Beijing with call to ‘meet each other halfway’
  • Xing’s remarks highlighted critical role of shared science, technology and innovation between the two countries since 1992

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China’s ambassador to South Korea Xing Haiming addressed “disturbances and difficulties” in diplomatic ties between Beijing and Seoul, in an interview on Friday. Photo: DPA
Shi Jiangtao
China’s ambassador to South Korea has called for greater bilateral cooperation on technology and innovation to help reset the strained ties between the two countries and overcome “disturbances and difficulties”.
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Xing Haiming’s remarks, published on the embassy’s WeChat account on Sunday, followed recent rare top-level exchanges between Chinese and South Korean leaders, in emerging signs that tensions could be easing.

Last month President Yoon Suk-yeol met Chinese Premier Li Qiang in Jakarta, while three weeks ago China’s leader Xi Jinping spoke of the importance of bilateral cooperation during a meeting with South Korean Prime Minister Han Duck-soo.

Xing hailed China’s ties with South Korea, which he said were of “global strategic significance”, in an interview on Friday with TusStar, a start-up incubator affiliated with Beijing’s Tsinghua University, according to the WeChat post.

Cooperation on science, technology and innovation, especially those between enterprises and the private sector, had been critical to both countries since they established official ties in 1992, he said.

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While acknowledging current “disturbances and difficulties”, Xing said that “as long as both sides meet each other halfway … bilateral ties will surely be able to get out of the predicament and embrace a better future”.

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