President Moon Jae-in giving a video speech at the’Climate Ambition Summit’ held by video on the 12th. Blue House Photo Reporters
President Moon Jae-in made a phone call with Chinese President Xi Jinping on the evening of the 26th, and agreed to successfully promote the’Korea-China Cultural Exchange Year’, which runs from this year to next year. In that the call was made before Moon’s newly inaugurated U.S. President Joe Biden spoke, the background is drawing more attention than the content of the conversation. President Moon’s phone call with President Xi has been eight months since May last year. The call between President Moon and President Xi took place around 9 o’clock this evening. Ahead of the 30th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Korea and China in 2022 in Tonghua, the two leaders decided to further revitalize exchanges and cooperation between the two countries, and to devise a blueprint for the next 30 years through the’Korea-China Relations Future Development Committee’. Told. The’Korea-China Relations Future Development Committee’ is an organization established to prepare a roadmap that suggests the direction of the development of Korea-China relations, which marks the 30th anniversary of diplomatic relations. The currency between the two leaders came in a situation where the newly launched US Biden administration was expected to succeed former President Trump’s strategy of pressure on China. As President Moon is on the phone with President Biden, it is difficult for President Xi to choose to speak with President Moon. Earlier, Xi made a speech at the World Economic Forum Agenda meeting held on the 25th, saying, “In order to solve the current challenges of the times, we must walk the path of multilateralism and building a community for human destiny.” Trump indirectly criticized the’US Priority’ that the former US administration had promoted so far, while emphasizing the’human community’ to Biden’s administration, they showed cooperation. However, the White House replied at a regular briefing that day, “Our access to China remains the same as in the last few months.” “We want to discuss with our allies the path ahead,” said US White House spokesman Jen Saki. Both sides are fighting fiercely over the future diplomatic strategies of the US and China. It seems that President Moon also chose to speak with President Xi before talking with President Biden in order to carefully examine the intentions of China, the largest trading country, amid such diplomatic changes. However, an official from the Blue House said, “Last year, President Xi was unable to return to Korea, so the two leaders had a consensus that it would be nice if they had a New Year’s greeting.” There was no other background. The Blue House did not disclose which party offered the call first. By Lee Wan, staff reporter [email protected]