China Warns South Korea Not To Politicise Economic Issues

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi has warned his South Korean counterpart on Sunday not to politicise economic and tech issues as the two prepared to meet Japan’s top diplomat on the sidelines of a trilateral meeting aimed at boosting cooperation.

“China and South Korea have become cooperation partners with highly integrated interests and highly interconnected production and supply chains,” Wang told South Korean Foreign Minister Park Jin, according to a Chinese Foreign Ministry readout.

“Both sides should jointly resist the tendency to politicise economic issues, instrumentalise science and tech issues, and the broad securitisation of trade issues.”

South Korea has sought to avoid becoming embroiled in a tit-for-tat row between China and the United States over semiconductors.

REUTERS