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East Asia summit ends with Japan-China handshake

East Asia summit ends with Japan-China handshake East Asia’s first summit of leaders ended on Wednesday with an agreement to hold annual talks on strategic issues such as trade and security — and a rare handshake between the leaders of Japan and China. The gesture, after months of feuding between Asia’s two biggest economies over their wartime past, came after 16 leaders signed a declaration calling for annual talks on issues that also included health scares such as bird flu and energy security. “We have all agreed that East Asian community will be a reality in the future,” Malaysian Prime Minister

East Asia summit concludes

East Asia summit concludes New Zealand was pleased to have taken part in the inaugural East Asia Summit on an equal footing with its regional neighbours, Foreign Minister Winston Peters said today. The summit, which concluded in Kuala Lumpur yesterday, was attended by Prime Minister Helen Clark and Leaders from the 10 Association of Southeast Asia Nation (ASEAN) countries, ASEAN+3 (China, Japan and the Republic of Korea) and Australia, New Zealand and India. Winston Peters attended a pre-summit Foreign Ministers meeting to lay the groundwork for the leaders' meeting. A key focus of the meeting was to finalise the East Asia

East Asia summit becomes an annual feature

East Asia summit becomes an annual feature The East Asia summit held in the Malaysian capital will hence forth be an annual affair to foster strategic dialogue among the member nations and to promote cooperation in security and political issues besides economic integration. The leaders of 16 nations which included the core ASEAN group have also decided to help each other in promote development, financial stability, energy security, economic integration and to narrow the development gap through technology transfer and removing infrastructure bottlenecks. To be chaired by ASEAN chairperson, the new summit will be "an open, inclusive, transparent and outward-looking forum in which

East Asia Summit a get-together of countries whose economic ties will grow: MM Lee

East Asia Summit a get-together of countries whose economic ties will grow: MM Lee Singapore's Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew has described the forthcoming East Asia Summit in Kuala Lumpur as a get-together of countries that believe their economic and cultural relations will grow over the years. In a wide-ranging interview with the TIME magazine, Mr Lee says the inaugural East Asia Summit next week will be a restoration of two ancient civilisations -China and India. With their revival, their influence will again spread into Southeast Asia. But while this would mean great prosperity for the region, it could also mean

Sino-Indian war over East Asia

Sino-Indian war over East Asia East Asia isn’t big enough for the two of us. That is China’s message to India in the run-up to the East Asia Summit in Kuala Lumpur (December 6-14). The summit is expected to announce the core group for a future East Asian community. Beijing is pushing for a group that excludes India. At the heart of the diplomatic battle is a summit declaration that, say diplomats, will say who will be “responsible for creating an East Asian community”. The “who” will be determined by which countries issue the declaration. China wants the all-important line to be part