SEOUL: President Lee Jae Myung’s four-day state visit to China is less a deal-making summit than an exploration of how Seoul and Beijing can steady their relationship under the growing constraints of US-China strategic competition and an increasingly volatile regional security landscape.
The trip, which began Sunday (Jan 4), carries a twin imperative, observers say. One is to keep high-stakes flashpoints from hijacking the relationship — as the 2017 THAAD deployment did.
