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Ambassador: US-China relations more focused on global issues

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2009-11-21 00:37

BEIJING: China-US relationship that by large was entering a period where our focus would be more and more on global issues, said US Ambassador to China Jon Huntsman on Friday.

Huntsman made the remarks at the Forum for America/China Exchange at Stanford (FACES) in Peking University, a top university in China.

"Obama arrived and found what he had hoped for," he said relating to the US President's just concluded China visit after reviewing the bilateral link chronicle.

US and China could strengthen cooperation in areas including military, people to people exchanges, climate change, clean energy and economic crisis, Huntsman told the delegates attending the forum.

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He said the US-China relationship was so "large and complicated" that managers of the relations should "take the areas of commonality" and "realize and speak open" about the disagreements.

Huntsman, who once lived in Taiwan and could speak Chinese called Chinese the "21st century language", saying diplomacy is ineffective without "investing a generation of professionals willing to invest their careers in turn in language, culture, regional studies."

FACES, a forum held in Beijing from November 15-20, gathered more than forty students from China and the US to discuss political, social, economic and cultural issues.