China, South Korea commerce ministers meet in Shanghai, agree to speed FTA talks

For RWA and digital-asset watchers, the signal is less about crypto than about the trade plumbing that increasingly shapes cross-border tokenization and settlement corridors between China and South Korea. A faster second-phase FTA could eventually touch services and investment rules, the same layers that govern how tokenized assets and payment rails are treated across borders. Who it affects: platforms and issuers eyeing Korea-China flows. The open question is whether the accelerated talks translate into concrete commitments on services and digital trade, or remain diplomatic language.