Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao visited Seoul May 28 to discuss enhanced cooperation with Korea. Wen’s second visit to the country focused on strengthening the strategic cooperative partnerships between China and South Korea, Xinhua News reports. Among the measures suggested by Wen is fast-tracking work on a free trade area for the two countries. In Jeju Island, Wen and South Korean officials met with their Japanese counterparts for the countries’ third trilateral meeting, at which they mapped out plans for East Asian cooperation.
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Ivy Mungcal
As former senior staff writer, Ivy Mungcal contributed to several Devex publications. Her focus is on breaking news, and in particular on global aid reform and trends in the United States, Europe, the Caribbean, and the Americas. Before joining Devex in 2009, Ivy produced specialized content for U.S. and U.K.-based business websites.
