US, China vow to improve cooperation

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP-Excite

By BRADLEY KLAPPER

BEIJING (AP) — The United States and China vowed Wednesday to improve their economic and security cooperation, saying they wouldn't let persistent differences over maritime claims, cyberhacking and currency hamper a relationship critical to global peace and prosperity.

Opening this year's "Strategic and Economic Dialogue," Chinese President Xi Jinping stressed the need to avoid confrontation between nations accounting for a quarter of the world's people and a third of the global economy.

His theme was largely echoed by Secretary of State John Kerry and Treasury Secretary Jack Lew, leaders of an American delegation that also included Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen and three other Obama administration Cabinet members.

Nevertheless, the next two days are a test of whether the annual high-level talks can produce tough compromises or just serve as a venue to talk about greater cooperation.

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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, left, and Treasury Secretary Jack Lew, center, get certificates saying that they have climbed to the top of the Great Wall as well as photo books about the wall from Guo Jiaqiang, second right, deputy director of the Badaling Foreign Affairs Office, and with Chen Fei, right, deputy director of the Badaling Great Wall Special District, while touring the Badaling section of the Great Wall of China in Beijing Tuesday, July 8, 2014. Kerry and Lew are in Beijing to attend the annual U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue. (AP Photo/Jim Bourg, Pool)


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[littlemissmartypants]

1. Are we sure

They didn't have their fingers crossed behind their backs?

[L0oniX]

2. Oh ...it's Kerry ...again.