China
urges U.S. to be more objective ahead of key meeting
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[July 03, 2014]
BEIJING (Reuters) - China and the
United States need to "plant more flowers, not thorns" in their
relationship and Washington needs to have a more objective view about
China, state media on Thursday quoted President Xi Jinping as saying
ahead of a key meeting.
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Xi, speaking to former U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson ahead
of next week's China-U.S. Strategic and Economic Dialogue, said he
hoped both countries could use such gatherings to keep "injecting
positive energy" into the relationship.
"The two sides should expand common interests, deepen cooperation,
plant more flowers, not thorns, clear the interference and avoid
suspicion and confrontation," Xi was quoted as saying by the
official China Daily.
China would stick to the path of peaceful development and shoulder
its international duties, Xi added.
"We hope the U.S. will objectively view China's basic national
conditions as well as its domestic and foreign policies," he said.
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China and the United States, as the world's two largest economies,
have close trade and business ties and work together on important
international issues like North Korea.
But they also have deep differences, over everything from human
rights to the value of the Chinese currency.
U.S. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew, who will attend the Strategic and
Economic Dialogue in Beijing, said on Tuesday the yuan's value was a
"very big issue" for the United States and that the currency needed
to appreciate more.
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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is also attending, and will
likely have to address Chinese concerns over what Beijing views as
Washington's support for Japan, Vietnam and the Philippines over
their territorial disputes with China.
China's increasingly assertive tone in the disputed East and South
China Seas, as well as its rising military expenditure, have rattled
nerves in the region and in Washington.
(Reporting by Ben Blanchard; Editing by Nick Macfie)
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