China, South Korea, Japan: Coy next door.

Also: Myanmar, Israel, Iran, Ukraine, Russia and Sierra Leone.

Negotiations between Japan, China, and Korea, Tsuneshige, 1894, woodblock print, Miami University Art Museum, Oxford, Ohio.

CHINA. SOUTH KOREA. JAPAN. Coy next door.

Mutual distrust amid mutual dependency.

Foreign ministers met together in Busan on Sunday for the first time since 2019, agreeing to pave the way to a trilateral leaders' meeting. Seoul's high…