New era in Northeast Asia

Blueprint for cooperation among China, Japan and South Korea is an indicator of peace and booming trade

The annual summit between leaders of China, Japan and the Republic of Korea (ROK) concluded on Sunday, mapping out a blueprint for tripartite cooperation by 2020.

At the two-day summit in the ROK's resort island of Jeju, the third of its kind, Premier Wen Jiabao, Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama and ROK President Lee Myung-bak made rapid strides in efforts to elevate the trilateral relationship to a new level, improve the mechanism of, and deepen, regional cooperation.