China urges U.S. to be more objective ahead of key meeting

[alp227]

Source: 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.

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.

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/07/03/us-china-usa-idUSKBN0F807E20140703

[Uncle Joe]

1. Perhaps China should be more objective in their territorial disputes with at least three of its'

neighbors?

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/07/03/us-china-usa-idUSKBN0F807E20140703

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.

If China were to reach a financial arrangement reimbursing Japan, the Philippines and Vietnam to lease their waters for fishing or oil drilling, perhaps a peaceful arrangement could be reached?

But these waters are obviously within their territorial spheres, not that of China's.

Thanks for the thread, alp.