Wang Yi, South Korean FM Cho Hyun Hold Talks in Beijing

The explicit naming of AI, biomedicine, green transition and the silver economy signals that Seoul-Beijing cooperation is being framed around industrial policy rather than traditional security diplomacy. For crypto and RWA markets, the signal is indirect: closer tech and standards coordination between two major Asian economies could shape cross-border data, digital asset and tokenization frameworks over time, though nothing in the talks addresses digital assets directly. Whether the emerging-areas agenda translates into concrete sectoral agreements is the open question worth tracking.