Bloomberg reports, "The foreign ministers of China, Japan and South Korea will discuss holding the first leaders' summit in three years as Asia's biggest economies seek to overcome tensions over territorial disputes and Japan's war legacy.  The foreign ministers from the three countries will meet some time this month in Seoul...A three-way summit can 'hopefully follow the successful holding of foreign ministers' talks,'...Rows over the sovereignty of islands in the East China Sea have hurt relations between the nations, and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe compounded tensions in 2013 by visiting a Tokyo war shrine seen by some as a symbol of Japan's past aggression in Asia. Abe has yet to hold a bilateral summit with South Korean President Geun Hye Park, and his first formal meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping last year appeared frosty."

According to The Washington Post, "China is reviving growth of its nuclear power industry with approval of its first new project in two years.The Cabinet's planning agency approved construction of two additional reactors at a power plant in the northeastern province of Liaoning, a unit of state-owned China General Nuclear Power Corp. said in an announcement released Tuesday through the Hong Kong stock exchange.China is the world's biggest energy consumer and nuclear power plays a key role in government plans to curb surging demand for imported oil and gas. Foreign suppliers of nuclear power equipment are looking to China as a major future market, though Beijing wants to produce as much of its own technology as possible."