What they say

We should particularly focus on confidence building. I hope the trilateral summit meeting will make progress in that direction and to get this from all the participants from the three countries, not just one or two. All of the participants should make more efforts to ensure greater cooperation under the spirit of mutual benefit, mutual cooperation and mutual respect.

Lee Kyu-hyung, former ROK ambassador to China and now an adviser at Samsung Economic Research Institute

The China-Japan relationship has displayed a momentum of improvement since last November. This momentum granted some of the conditions required for preliminarily resuming the trilateral leaders' meeting, but such a momentum of improvement is not stable and cemented, and it needs tangible actions to be permanent.