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By Miles Yu, Geostrategy-Direct.com
The hurriedly-arranged state visit to Seoul by China’s supreme leader Xi Jinping, scheduled to take place July 3 to July 4, indicates that unexpected, even seemingly insurmountable disagreements between the two countries, have surfaced to require a direct intervention from Beijing’s top leader.
In the last several years, South Korea has become China’s leading target for a charm offensive in a strategy to isolate Japan and drive a wedge within the U.S.-Japan-South Korea alliance in Northeast Asia.
On the surface, the strategy seems to have worked, with strong anti-Japan sentiments fanned by both Beijing and Seoul on historical, and especially WWII, issues.
China’s Xi Jinping and South Korea’s President Park Geun-Hye seem to have developed an unusual rapport free of acrimony and hostility.
Beneath the harmonious surface, however, lie many differences in the Beijing-Seoul bilateral relationship.
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