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广播听力:Three-way Meeting Expected to Help Ease Tensions in E.Asia

Source: CRI    2015-10-31  我要投稿   论坛   Favorite  

Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, South Korean President Park Geun-Hye and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will sit down together on Sunday for their first trilateral meeting since May of 2012.

Historical and territorial issues among the three countries have kept them from coming together until this weekend.

While those issues are still there, Jeff Kingston, director of Asian studies at Temple University in Japan, says the resumption of the trilateral summit could be a signal those tensions may be easing somewhat.

"I think we've had this really long hiatus in regional dialogue and communication principally because of differences over history and also to some exten