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SEOUL – South Korea is pressing to restore a summit with the leaders of China and Japan despite a diplomatic rift that has led some parliamentary members of President Yoon Suk-yeol’s party to call for the expulsion of Beijing’s envoy.Seoul is in discussions with China and Japan, National Security Adviser Cho Tae-yong told reporters on Wednesday, before departing for a meeting in Tokyo with his US and Japanese counterparts.
The three have been at odds, with Seoul and Tokyo drawing Beijing’s ire for backing US policies placing curbs on some high-tech equipment to China and looking to bolster supply chains for key materials such as semiconductors that are less dependent on the country. “The government should designate Ambassador Xing as a persona non grata and expel him for his provocative behaviour,” Mr Shin Wonsik, a ruling party lawmaker, said in a post on his Facebook page. “Chinese diplomats cannot be an exception if they trample on the sovereignty and pride of South Korea.”
China used economic retaliation against South Korea in 2017 when it objected to Seoul deploying the US Terminal High Altitude Area Defence missile shield.China lodges complaint over South Korean President Yoon’s ‘erroneous’ Taiwan remarks
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