CHINA, US WRAP UP KEY TALKS ON ECONOMY, N.KOREA
Christophe Schmidt
Christophe Schmidt
Sydney Morning Herald, May 25, 2010
The United States and China were wrapping up strategic talks Tuesday aimed at smoothing out differences on currency and trade issues, as Washington presses Beijing to get tough on North Korea.
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner were meeting senior Chinese officials for the second and final day of the annual Strategic and Economic Dialogue.
Underlining the meeting's importance after months of tension, Washington has sent a mammoth 200-strong delegation including several cabinet-level ministers and other high-ranking officials to the Chinese capital.
The talks have given the two sides the opportunity to air their differences on an array of issues ranging from trade spats and the value of the yuan to Internet freedom and Taiwan.
Both sides said the annual negotiations had got off to a "good start", but the world's number one and three economies appeared apart on several fronts.
The United States and China were wrapping up strategic talks Tuesday aimed at smoothing out differences on currency and trade issues, as Washington presses Beijing to get tough on North Korea.
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner were meeting senior Chinese officials for the second and final day of the annual Strategic and Economic Dialogue.
Underlining the meeting's importance after months of tension, Washington has sent a mammoth 200-strong delegation including several cabinet-level ministers and other high-ranking officials to the Chinese capital.
The talks have given the two sides the opportunity to air their differences on an array of issues ranging from trade spats and the value of the yuan to Internet freedom and Taiwan.
Both sides said the annual negotiations had got off to a "good start", but the world's number one and three economies appeared apart on several fronts.
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