{"id":4401,"date":"2026-11-14T11:04:34","date_gmt":"2026-11-14T06:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=4401"},"modified":"2026-11-14T11:04:34","modified_gmt":"2026-11-14T06:04:34","slug":"south-korea-should-not-fear-chinas-rise-foreign-minister-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=4401","title":{"rendered":"South Korea should not fear China’s rise, foreign minister says"},"content":{"rendered":"
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South Korea should neither fear China\u2019s rise nor underestimate its capabilities, Foreign Minister Cho Hyun said on Saturday, urging deeper cooperation \u200bahead of a regional summit in China next week.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cDuring this visit to \u200cChina, I was reminded that we should neither have an unfounded fear of China\u2019s rise nor underestimate its capabilities and potential,\u201d Cho wrote on X, saying Seoul should \u200bbuild cooperation benefiting both countries by drawing on the autonomy and \u200bcreativity of its people and companies.<\/p>\n

Cho\u2019s remarks came after talks and dinner with \u2060Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Beijing on Friday, their first meeting \u200bin about three months.<\/p>\n

The ministers discussed bilateral ties, issues on the Korean Peninsula and ways \u200bto deliver tangible benefits to people in both countries.<\/p>\n

The meeting came ahead of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) leaders\u2019 summit in Shenzhen on November 18-19, which South Korean President Lee <\/a>Jae-myung will attend.<\/p>\n

Lee is also scheduled to join a dinner hosted \u200bby Chinese President Xi Jinping and his wife, Seoul has said.<\/p>\n

The summit is expected to \u200cbring \u2060together several major world leaders. US President Donald Trump<\/a> is set to meet Xi and Russian President Vladimir Putin next Thursday on the sidelines of APEC, with nuclear arms reductions among the issues on the agenda, the White \u200bHouse said.<\/p>\n

Cho said Seoul \u200bwould seek to use \u2060Lee\u2019s visit to advance bilateral ties and expand \u201chorizontal and mutually beneficial\u201d cooperation in areas where the two countries have complementary \u200bstrengths.<\/p>\n

Lee\u2019s administration has sought to improve relations with China<\/a>, South Korea\u2019s \u200blargest trading \u2060partner, after ties were strained under former president Yoon Suk Yeol, while maintaining Seoul\u2019s security alliance with the United States.<\/p>\n

Wang<\/a> said on Friday that China wanted to expand \u2060cooperation \u200bwith South Korea in traditional industries and emerging \u200bsectors including artificial intelligence and biomedicine.<\/p>\n

He said bilateral ties had returned to the right track \u200bafter exchanges between the two countries\u2019 leaders.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

South Korea should neither fear China\u2019s rise nor underestimate its capabilities, Foreign Minister Cho Hyun said on Saturday, urging deeper cooperation \u200bahead of a regional summit in China next week. \u201cDuring this visit to \u200cChina, I was reminded that we should neither have an unfounded fear of China\u2019s rise nor underestimate its capabilities and potential,\u201d Cho wrote on X, saying Seoul should \u200bbuild cooperation benefiting both countries by drawing on the autonomy and \u200bcreativity of its people and companies. Cho\u2019s remarks came after talks and dinner with \u2060Chinese Foreign Minister…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}