The Rhetoric and Reality of the Trilateral and Bilateral Summits: Cautious Optimism
World Commerce Review, Volume 9, Issue 4, 2015
Posted: 15 Dec 2015
Date Written: December 12, 2015
Abstract
The functionalist approach to cooperation explicitly voiced at the recent trilateral and bilateral summits strongly suggests that China, South Korea and Japan remain far apart on core issues that continue to divide them. Moreover, shifts in dynamics between Japan-South Korea, South Korea-China and China-South Korea indicate that an incremental rapprochement between Japan and South Korea is taking place while China-Japan rapprochement continues to struggle to find traction.
Keywords: Trilateral Summit, Bilateral Summit, Japan, China, Korea
Suggested Citation: Suggested Citation
Nagy, Stephen Robert, The Rhetoric and Reality of the Trilateral and Bilateral Summits: Cautious Optimism (December 12, 2015). World Commerce Review, Volume 9, Issue 4, 2015, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2703637
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