First strategic Sino-US talks in 26 years held at Beijing
03 Aug '05
4 min read
China calls the meeting a "strategic dialogue" while the United States refers to it as a "senior dialogue."
The two countries may have had discussions on such issues as diplomacy, economics, security and international affairs, including the thorny Taiwan issue, said Liu Jiangyong, a researcher with the prestigious Tsinghua University in Beijing.
The dialogue has brought Sino-US relations to a new height, following the recent frequent exchange of high-level visits between the two countries, said Liu.
During his brief stopover in Hong Kong on Saturday, Zoellick said he would discuss "strategic issues of common interest" like foreign policy and economics with senior Chinese officials in Beijing.
The two nations tend to prefer negotiations to confrontations in tackling their conflicts and differences on the rhetoric of "China threat", textile disputes and intellectual property rights (IPR).
Zoellick said that his discussions with the Chinese officials would enable the two countries "to get a better sense of one another's interests: where there are points of mutuality - and I believe there are many - how to work cooperatively; but also, where we have differences, how best to try to manage them."
Frictions between the two countries are inevitable as they keep deepening cooperation and exchange in various fields, said Liu, the Tsinghua researcher. However, the high-level dialogue will help eliminate strategic misjudgment and push forward bilateral relations in a healthy, mature and mutually-beneficial manner, Liu added.
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