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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (right) and South Korean President Moon Jae-in (left) on December 23 in Chengdu. STR / JIJI PRESS / AFP

The China-Japan-South Korea tripartite summit opens this Tuesday, December 24. The three countries must tackle several subjects: the Korean peninsula while Pyonyang threatens to intensify its balisitic tests, the strengthening of regional exchanges but also the return of dialogue between Seoul and Tokyo.

With our correspondent in Beijing, Stéphane Lagarde

Shinzo Abe and Moon Jae-in pose in the same photo during this two-day summit in China. The Japanese Prime Minister and the President of South Korea had not met face to face for more than a year following commercial scrambles and historic disputes between the two countries. But five hours by plane later, this summit in the capital of the pandas wants to try to pick up the pieces.

The Chinese province of Sichuan is a field of reconciliation. The deterioration of relations between China and the United States pushes Beijing to look after its relations with its two big neighbors of the Northeast. The two countries are close allies of Washington in the region.

Hong Kong, a " Chinese domestic affair ", according to Seoul

The dispute between China and Seoul is forgotten after the adoption by South Korea of an American anti-missile system . At the bottom of the handkerchief is still the territorial dispute in the East China Sea with Tokyo. Restoring relations may be easier with South Korea focused on North Korea. Seoul has just reaffirmed " considering the question of Hong Kong as a Chinese domestic affair ".

However, it is a little more complicated with Tokyo. During his meeting with Chinese President on Monday, the Japanese Prime Minister urged Beijing to improve transparency on the Sichuan region and to continue to show restraint in Hong Kong .

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