The high-level dialogue with China will "help build the trust and relationships" between the two big countries to "tackle the most vexing global challenges", said Hillary Clinton, the US Secretary of State, and Timothy Geithner, the US Treasury Secretary, in their article on Wall Street Journal on July 27 right before the first US-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue to be held in Washington.
Ms. Clinton and Mr. Geithner will lead the US team to talk with the Chinese delegation led by Chinese State Councilor Dai Bingguo and Vice Premier Wang Qishan in the high profile new mechanism on July 27 and 28.
Neither the US nor China is able to solve global problems alone; cooperation between China and the US is indispensable to solve global problems, they claimed in the article.
They said that the new high-level dialogue, which will be joined by many high ranking officials from the two sides, will "develop a new framework for US-China relations".
The global economic crisis will be on the top agenda of the dialogue, according to their article. They hailed the actions that the US and China have taken to revive their own economies respectively on one hand and urged the two sides to restructure their economies for "balanced and sustainable growth in the years to come".
They called for openness of the two markets to make sure that people benefit from the "rapidly expanding U.S.-China economic relationship".
A second priority, said the two U.S. representatives in the dialogue, is climate change, energy and the environment. They expect "a true partnership" on low carbon economy.
Regional and global security and development, ranging from the nuclear issue in Korean Peninsula to African economy, is listed as the third on the agenda.
However, they also recognized that there will be differences between their country and China. "We must be frank about our differences", they said.
By citing a Chinese aphorism "when you are in a common boat, you need to cross the river peacefully together", they vowed to "join our Chinese counterparts in grabbing an oar and starting to row".
By People's Daily Online
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