A rare look over The Great Wall

Are the U.S. and China headed for a “new great power relationship?”

That is what Xi Jinping, China’s new president has called for. He and U.S. President Barack Obama kicked off that vision last month, in an unusually informal meeting at the Sunnylands resort in California.

And in a rare and exclusive interview with Christiane Amanpour, Chinese Ambassador to the U.S. Cui Tiankai said that it’s “obvious” that the countries need each other.

“The United States is the most powerful country in the world,” Ambassador Cui said. “China is working very hard to modernize the country to develop its economy and improve the livelihood of its people. So it’s very obvious that it’s important for China to have stable and healthy relations with the United States.”

Cui is on the front lines of implementing the two presidents’ vision for a new relationship between China and the U.S.

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Mick Krever, CNN via CHINA US Focus http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ChinaUsFocus/~3/0xWvsvMzI7Q/