The U.S. and China will try to reset an increasingly strained relationship when senior officials meet in Beijing this week for talks on strategic and economic issues on which they have made scant progress over the past 12 months.
This time last year, Chinese and U.S. officials were hailing a new era of cooperative bilateral relations based on the personal rapport struck between Xi Jinping and Barack Obama at their first presidential summit in California in June 2013.
At this year’s Strategic and Economic Dialogue on Wednesday and Thursday, neither side is anticipating progress on the core security issues of cybertheft, North Korea’s nuclear program and Asian maritime disputes. Nor are the annual talks expected to produce major breakthroughs on economic matters, such as market access and the value of the Chinese currency, officials said, though some expect a step forward in talks on a bilateral investment treaty.
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Jeremy Page and Ian Talley, The Wall Street Journal via CHINA US Focus http://ift.tt/1lRaMjr
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