Obama’s visit ‘important milestone’
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US President Barack Obama’s upcoming visit to China will be an “important milestone” in relations, the top White House national security aide said yesterday at a meeting with officials in Beijing.
The trip by national security adviser Susan Rice comes ahead of a one-on-one summit between Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping that is being planned to coincide with the US leader’s visit to the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation meeting in Beijing in November.
Obama “views this visit as an important milestone in the development of our important relationship,” Rice said at the opening of her meeting with Chinese State Councilor Yang Jiechi and Chinese ambassador to the US Cui Tiankai.
“The president asked me to travel here — even as there are many other issues on our shared global agenda — because of the priority he attaches to US-China relations,” she added.
Yang said he looked forward to discussing “China’s core interests and major concerns,” as well as working to “constructively manage our differences on sensitive issues to ensure that the US-China relationship will continue to move forward.”
Stressing that the China-US relationship has maintained overall stability and made progress with both sides’ efforts, Yang said Xi and Obama agreed in a telephone conversation in July to continue to work jointly in building a new model of major country relations between China and the United States.
The two sides have been making steady progress in exchanges and cooperation in economics and trade, counter-terrorism, energy, environment protection and other fields, including the Korean Peninsular nuclear issue, the Iranian nuclear issue, the Middle East, Afghanistan, South Sudan and disease control, he said.
“The current international environment has further highlighted the strategic significance for China and the United States to jointly build a new model of major country relations,” he said, in a nod to a theme that Xi has promoted since his summit with Obama in California in June 2013.
He said China is ready to work with the US on the presidential consensus, advance bilateral dialogue and cooperation in all fields and make good preparations for Obama’s visit.
Rice’s trip is her first to China since she took office as the national security adviser in July last year.
She is due to meet other Chinese leaders today.
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