Trilateral meeting to boost relations

The second independent trilateral leaders' summit among China, Japan and the Republic of Korea (ROK) on Saturday will create great hopes for future cooperation and development in this region, Chinese experts said.

Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama (left) attends a joint news  confernce with South Korean President Lee Myung-bak after a summit  at the presidential Blue House in Seoul on Friday. It was the first  time the Japanese prime minister had visited Seoul. Hatoyama and Lee  arrived in Beijing late Friday for the second meeting of leaders from  China, Japan and ROK. Reuters

The first such meeting took place in December in Fukuoka, Japan, in the face of the global financial crisis and it was regarded as having"opened a new era" of neighborly solidarity despite historical disputes and conflicts.

"The Fukuoka summit saw the dawn of close cooperation among the three nations. In Beijing, we can expect a meeting with great hopes for further and deeper exchanges when the three countries are recovering from the financial crisis," Liu Jiangyong, a senior expert on Sino-Japanese relations at Tsinghua University, told China Daily on Friday.

Premier Wen Jiabao, Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama and ROK President Lee Myung-bak are expected to discuss the Korean Peninsula nuclear issue, the East Asian community, climate change and next year's G20 economic summit in South Korea, analysts said.