This is CBS I on the world with John Bachelor.

Here's John Bachelor.

Gordon Chang, I'm colleague and co-host, and we welcome Lance Gatling,

Principal at Naxial Research. He's in Tokyo.

And I go to a report from Reuters, Seoul, South Korea in these last hours.

The leaders of South Korea, China, and Japan issued a joint declaration covering cooperation in a range of areas from trade to climate change

and aging societies.

There is a video accompanying the Reuters story I recommend.

It's a vast room in Seoul and the table looks to be

three-sided. Kishida of Japan, the Prime Minister, Eun of South Korea, the Republic of

Korea, the President, and a man named Liet Chang, who is neither the head of state nor the head of government, to my understanding, from the People's Republic of China. So immediately there looks to be asymmetry.

However, Lance, a very good day to you. Was this a large story in Tokyo and how was it explained to the Japanese people?

Good evening to you.

Well hello Gordon.

Hello John, welcome from the future.

Yes, sure, it was a very large story here.

This is a momentous occasion.

This is the ninth of the trilateral meetings between China, Korea, Japan.

They've been suspended for years

as the Chinese have played hardball

with the Japanese and the Koreans

over many, many different issues. The environment. and the Chinese railing against the Japanese for the trying to export seafood from the Pacific Ocean somewhere,

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