US, China pledge a new model of co-operation

The Indian Express , Sunday, June 09, 2013
Correspondent :
President Obama and President Xi Jinping of China said they were building "a new model" of co-operative relations after 40 years of diplomatic ups and downs as they wound down a second day of talks Saturday that included discussion of a nuclear-armed North Korea, cyber-espionage, climate change, free trade and human rights.

Xi said he and Obama "reached important consensus on these issues" when they spoke to reporters during a break late Friday, after meeting for more than the planned three hours and before a nearly two-hour working dinner.

But Obama cautioned, "We've got a lot of work to do to take these broad understandings down to the level of specifics, and that will require further discussions" in the "weeks, months, years to come."

Xi referred repeatedly to "a new model of major-country relationship", reflecting his own ambitions that China emerge as an equal partner to the US on the global economic and diplomatic stage, even as its wary Pacific Rim neighbors look to Washington to check Beijing's rise.

On American accusations that China's military broke into US computer systems, Xi's response defensive and evasive. "I note sharp increased media coverage of the issue of cybersecurity," Xi said. "This might give people the sense or feeling that cybersecurity as a threat mainly comes from China."

 
SOURCE : http://www.indianexpress.com/news/us-china-pledge-a-new-model-of-cooperation/1126886/
 


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