China’s Premier Li Keqiang (C) speaks as South Korea’s President Moon Jae-in (L) and Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (R) look on during a joint press conference at the 8th trilateral leaders’ meeting between China, South Korea and Japan in Chengdu, southwestern China’s Sichuan province on December 24, 2019. – China hosts the leaders of squabbling neighbours South Korea and Japan on December 24, flexing its diplomatic muscle with America’s two key military allies in Asia and seeking regional unity on how to deal with a belligerent North Korea. (Photo by WANG ZHAO / POOL / AFP)