Overview

• Lee Jae-myung and Xi Jinping held their first phone call since Lee’s June 4 inauguration, marking his third diplomatic outreach following calls with US President Donald Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba.
• Xi Jinping urged deeper economic cooperation and free-trade commitments to stabilize global and regional industrial supply chains between China and South Korea.
• Lee requested China’s constructive role in achieving denuclearization and lasting peace on the Korean Peninsula, and Xi agreed to make efforts toward that goal.
• The South Korean president formally invited Xi to the APEC summit in Gyeongju this November to facilitate ongoing consultations on bilateral initiatives.
• Both leaders vowed to expand people-to-people and cultural exchanges to strengthen mutual understanding between their countries’ citizens.