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Media focus expected during Xi鈥檚 US visit
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Amy Celico, principal for China & East Asia at the Albright Stonebridge Group, said on Tuesday in Shanghai that the US must continue to welcome China as a great power in the world and build a constructive relationship to resolve global issues.
Celico was among several experts and media professionals who spoke at a recent seminar held by the Shanghai Institute for Strategic Studies.
She also said that concrete action will help assure the success of Chinese President Xi Jinping鈥檚 first state visit to the US, an event scheduled for September.
What鈥檚 more, Celico said that such actions could mitigate concerns about the US-China relationship which are expected to be raised during the American election season. 鈥淎s soon as we approach this election season in the US we must find ways to highlight the incredible huge mutual benefits this relationship brings to our countries and the world,鈥 Celico explained.
During the same event, Hannah Beech, east Asia bureau chief and China bureau chief for TIME magazine, said that in the run-up to President Xi鈥檚 visit to the US 鈥淵ou can be assured that there will be stories in the American press focused on the aspects of Sino-American relationship ... from the American perspective, including but are not limited to the investment climate in China, cyber security, human rights and territory issues. If critical stories are printed, that doesn鈥檛 mean the Sino-American relationship is dead.鈥
Avoiding misunderstandings
Beech went on to explain that the US and China are both big countries and mutual trust is good for people in both places. 鈥淏y looking at how each country鈥檚 press covers the Obama-Xi summit, we will be able to get a more complete sense that our countries are interconnected. We don鈥檛 want to damage our relationships because of misunderstandings.鈥
Taking the floor after Beech, Michael Parks, the 1987 Pulitzer Prize winner and currently interim director of the University of Southern California Annenberg School of Journalism, said that the bilateral relations between China and the US may not be in very good shape at the moment.
Parks was in China鈥檚 Great Hall of the People in 1972, when he witnessed the improvement of bilateral relations between China and the US. He indicated that where President Xi goes and who he talks to will be very important, as will the public鈥檚 perception of success or failure on specific issues.
Indeed, such perceptions will be all the more important since the state visit is expected to herald a new era in Sino-US relations.
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