A friendly summit between South Korean President Park Geun-hye and Chinese General Secretary Xi Jinping on Wednesday contrasts sharply with the little attention paid to North Korean representative, Choi Ryong Hae, during the Chinese Victory Day celebration.

So does this signify a stark shift in China’s position on Korean Peninsular affairs? Not so fast.

The meeting between Park and Xi was followed by the South Korean government declaring that China agreed to organize a summit with Seoul and, notably, Tokyo in late October or early November. China also confirmed its commitment to the “denuclearization” of the Korean Peninsula.

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