The U.S. and China began to re-engage Tuesday on knotty issues ranging from economic frictions to North Korea’s nuclear program following a months-long hiatus during President Barack Obama’s re-election and China’s installation of new leaders.
Chinese President Xi Jinping met Tuesday with visiting U.S. Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew in the first high-level exchange between the sides in six months and the start of a series of meetings that will test the potential for cooperation between the world’s first- and second-largest economies.
Although the relationship is colored by mutual suspicion, the two sides now discuss an ever-broadening agenda, from military cooperation to food safety, said Jin Canrong, an associate dean of the School of International Relations at Beijing’s Renmin University. And their relatively swift resolution of a potentially crippling crisis last year over a dissident who sought U.S. protection seemed to take the relationship to a more stable level, he said.
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Christopher Bodeen and Joe McDonald, Associated Press via CHINA US Focus http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ChinaUsFocus/~3/3hvudW6fmcc/
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