Japan, China, South Korea agree to push for world’s biggest free trade zone

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Chinese PM Li Keqiang and South Korean President Park Geun-hye agreed to continue work on creating the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), a free trade zone that would bring together countries with populations totaling 3.4 billion people. The trilateral summit in the Korean capital was the first since 2012 and was touted as reconciliatory. The three nations had a falling out due to differences on historic issues and territorial disputes between them.