{"id":1016722,"date":"2026-08-22T08:58:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T08:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1016722\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T08:58:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T08:58:16","slug":"why-chinese-foreign-ministers-trip-to-south-korea-dealt-a-low-blow-to-seoul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1016722\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Chinese foreign minister\u2019s trip to South Korea \u2018dealt a low blow\u2019 to Seoul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">China\u2019s top diplomat, Wang Yi, concluded his visit to South Korea on Friday, but declined to back Seoul\u2019s push for multiparty peace talks involving the North.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">North Korea, however, responded with more than 10 short-range ballistic missile launches on Thursday, prompting the South\u2019s presidential office to convene an emergency security meeting.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">During the visit, both sides said bilateral ties had \u201cfully recovered\u201d after years of strain, citing recent exchanges between their leaders and renewed cooperation on trade, technology and people-to-people exchanges.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">But Wang, who visited the country last year with Xi and was making his first solo trip in five years, delivered a pointed message to President Lee Jae Myung and other senior officials.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">He urged them to pursue \u201cgenuine strategic autonomy\u201d, avoid \u201cbloc confrontation or taking sides\u201d, and develop relations with Beijing and Washington \u201cin a mutually compatible manner\u201d, according to the foreign ministry in Beijing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"China\u2019s top diplomat, Wang Yi, concluded his visit to South Korea on Friday, but declined to back Seoul\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1016723,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5],"tags":[9710,74,69,169357,24529,282564,335883,30359,50,24240,41351,284361,26057,15243,67,13217,103],"class_list":["post-1016722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world","tag-beijing","tag-china","tag-donald-trump","tag-east-asia","tag-kim-jong-un","tag-korean-peninsula","tag-kyung-hee-university","tag-lee-jae-myung","tag-news","tag-north-korea","tag-pyongyang","tag-renmin-university","tag-seoul","tag-south-korea","tag-united-states","tag-wang-yi","tag-world"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117138339859982945","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1016722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016722\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1016723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1016722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1016722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1016722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}