Friday, February 14, 2014

Chinese president, premier, FM meet US Secretary of State

By CCTV reporter Wu Guoxiu
President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Keqiang have held separate talks with US Secretary of State John Kerry in Beijing. Mr. Kerry arrived in the Chinese capital on Friday. The talks centered on initiating a "new relationship model" between China and the US, as well as regional security issues. Kerry also met his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi, to discuss ways of forging better ties in 2014.
Meeting on the last day of China’s traditional Spring Festival, President Xi Jinping told US Secretary of State John Kerry that China is committed to building a new model of big power relations with the US.


In hopes of building on the momentum made last year, President Xi Jinping said China and the US should also strengthen dialogue, coordination and cooperation in major international and regional issues.
For his part, Secretary Kerry described the meeting as "constructive and positive."
"I am glad we had an opportunity to dig into the detail of some of the North Korea (DPRK) challenges, and I appreciated the willingness to move forward on cooperation of climate change." said John Kerry, US Secretary of State.

In his meeting with John Kerry, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang called for more bilateral cooperation on energy. The Premier wants the US to increase direct exports of liquid gas. And he wants China to be more involved in joint exploration for shale gas.

China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi also held talks with John Kerry. He said the two countries should build their new type of relationship in a practical way, characterized by no conflicts, no confrontation, mutual respect and win-win cooperation.

"We need to accumulate and unleash the positive energy of the relationship and promote it towards continuous progress on the right track." said Wang Yi, Chinese Foreign Minister.
Apart from bilateral relations, Kerry said he would also cover issues like the Korean Peninsula, Syria, Afghanistan and Iran. Delegates at the meeting included those charged with policies covering East Asian and Pacific Affairs.

"We hope that 2014 will be a year of concrete progress in defining the new modern relationship, managing our differences effectively and finding a way to cooperate practically where ever possible." said John Kerry, US Secretary of State.
http://english.cntv.cn/program/asiatoday/20140214/105594.shtml


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    On a tour though Asia, Kerry said he held a constructive meeting Friday with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing’s Great Hall of the People. He said he urged China to “use every tool at its disposal” to persuade North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons program.............http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/kerry-pushes-china-on-north-korea-nukes/2014/02/14/c10b36ee-954d-11e3-ae45-458927ccedb6_story.html?wprss=rss_homepage
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    BEIJING — United States Secretary of State John Kerry said yesterday he had won a commitment from China to help bring a belligerent North Korea back to nuclear disarmament talks, despite him butting heads with Chinese leaders over a series of increasingly aggressive steps Beijing has taken to assert itself in territorial disputes with its smaller neighbours.

    Mr Kerry met Chinese President Xi Jinping and other senior officials as he sought to underscore the Obama administration’s commitment to refocusing US foreign policy on the Asia-Pacific amid a myriad other global priorities.

    Mr Kerry praised China for joining the US in calling for North Korea to dismantle its nuclear programmes and said he urged Beijing to “use every tool at its disposal” to convince its communist neighbour to return to the long-stalled disarmament talks.

    North Korea “must take meaningful, concrete and irreversible steps towards verifiable denuclearisation and it needs to begin now,” Mr Kerry said.

    Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said Beijing would never allow chaos or war on the Korean Peninsula. “China is serious on this, as shown not only in our words but in our actions,” Mr Wang said, according to the official Xinhua news agency.

    While China is North Korea’s only significant ally and main source of economic assistance, the extent of Beijing’s influence, and willingness to use it, is unclear following a purge in the isolated country’s leadership.

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