Xi to South Korean president: Make the right choices

Lee Jae Myung is first South Korean leader to visit Beijing in six years

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Chinese President Xi Jinping called on his visiting South Korean counterpart yesterday to join Beijing in making the “right strategic choices” in a world that is “becoming more complex and turbulent”, state media reported.

Lee Jae Myung is the first South Korean leader to visit the Chinese capital in six years and his meeting with Xi came a day after the nuclear-armed North fired two ballistic missiles into the Sea of Japan.

It also followed a shock US military operation in Caracas that deposed Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro and brought him to New York to face narco trafficking charges - a raid condemned by Beijing and Pyongyang.

At yesterday’s talks, Xi warned “the world is currently undergoing accelerated changes unseen in a century, and the international situation is becoming more complex and turbulent”, state news agency Xinhua reported.