Xi calls for cooperation to ease tensions with US
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January 17, 2012, Tuesday
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China and the United States should cooperate more closely to defuse international crises and ensure friction does not overwhelm shared interests, Vice President Xi Jinping said yesterday, ahead of his visit to Washington.
"No matter what changes affect the international situation, our commitment to developing the Sino-US cooperative partnership should never waver in the face of passing developments," Vice President Xi told a meeting in Beijing.
"In dealing with major and sensitive issues that concern each side's core interests, we must certainly abide by a spirit of mutual respect and handle them prudently, and by no means can we let relations again suffer major interference and ructions.
"I will soon visit the United States at the invitation of Vice President Biden, and I hope that my visit can play a positive role in advancing the Sino-US cooperative partnership," Xi told a gathering of officials, diplomats and scholars commemorating 40 years since US President Richard Nixon made his historic, ice-breaking trip to China in 1972.
Xi was accompanied by Henry Kissinger, Nixon's national security adviser in 1972, who was instrumental in that trip.
Ties between the two countries have been buffeted by strains over trade, regional policy and military intentions that could be complicated by the US presidential race.
Xi nevertheless said China and the US could find common ground over diplomatic crises, as well as climate change and energy, trade and the direction of global economic growth.
"No matter what changes affect the international situation, our commitment to developing the Sino-US cooperative partnership should never waver in the face of passing developments," Vice President Xi told a meeting in Beijing.
"In dealing with major and sensitive issues that concern each side's core interests, we must certainly abide by a spirit of mutual respect and handle them prudently, and by no means can we let relations again suffer major interference and ructions.
"I will soon visit the United States at the invitation of Vice President Biden, and I hope that my visit can play a positive role in advancing the Sino-US cooperative partnership," Xi told a gathering of officials, diplomats and scholars commemorating 40 years since US President Richard Nixon made his historic, ice-breaking trip to China in 1972.
Xi was accompanied by Henry Kissinger, Nixon's national security adviser in 1972, who was instrumental in that trip.
Ties between the two countries have been buffeted by strains over trade, regional policy and military intentions that could be complicated by the US presidential race.
Xi nevertheless said China and the US could find common ground over diplomatic crises, as well as climate change and energy, trade and the direction of global economic growth.
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