The People Power Party criticized the South Korea–China summit between President Lee Jae-myung and Chinese President Xi Jinping, saying it ended as an event-style meeting without securing benefits.
Song Eon-seog, floor leader of the People Power Party, said at a floor countermeasures meeting held at the National Assembly on the morning of the 6th that President Lee's visit to China and the South Korea–China summit only highlighted ceremonial scenes, while Korea's tangible diplomatic and security interests were hardly secured.
He added, in September last year when North Korea's Kim Jong-un visited China, Foreign Minister Wang Yi, a Politburo Commissioner with a much higher party rank than Director General Yin Hejun, who had received our president, personally greeted him, saying it clearly showed whom China values strategically.
Song also said, regarding the issue of illegally installed Chinese structures in the West Sea, China neither apologized nor promised removal, leaving only the vague phrase "a sea of common prosperity," and on the North Korean nuclear issue, President Lee mentioned peace on the Korean Peninsula, but Xi avoided the key point by speaking of peace in the region.
He continued, on the contrary, China talked about the "right side," hinting at attempts to shake our core security pillars of the South Korea–U.S. alliance and South Korea–U.S.–Japan cooperation, and stressed that the many MOUs the government touts as achievements are merely nonbinding declarative agreements.