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CRISIS TALKS

China, US see recovery signs

AP/AFP, Washington
Top officials of tire United States and China said Monday they saw hopeful signs that the global economy was beginning to move into a period of recovery.
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said that the joint efforts of the nations to deal with the financial crisis with large stimulus programs marked a turning point in the relationship of the two economic superpowers.
Chinese Vice Premier Wang Qishan said that "at present the world economy is at a critical moment of moving out of crisis and toward recovery."
The officials spoke at the opening of two days of high-level talks covering a range of issues in the area of economic tensions and foreign policy hot spots such as North Korea's nuclear challenges.
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has opened talks with high-level Chinese officials, hailing an opportunity for better relations and saying the two countries share common interests and mutual threats.
Kicking offfl new dialogue with Beijing, Clinton said that the two "are laying brick by brick the foundation of a stronger relationship." She said it was time to move from "a multipolar world to a multipartner world."
The talks will include discussions of the global economic slide, climate change and commercial relationships. Clinton said the two "will not always see eye to eye." Both sides are emphasising the importance of the meetings.
US President Barack Obama was set to inaugurate the two-day dialogue, part of the US leader's push to build a broader relationship between the biggest developed and developing economies.
With China increasingly uneasy about its massive exposure to the US economy, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner made a joint appeal to Beijing to work together to spur global growth.
"Simply put, few global problems can be solved by the US or
China alone. And few can be solved without the US and China together," Geithner and Clinton wrote in an article published Monday in The Wall Street Journal.
"The success of the world's major economies in blunting the force of the global recession and setting the stage for recovery is due in substantial measure to the bold steps our two nations have taken," theysaid.
"As we move toward recovery, we must take additional steps to lay the foundation for balanced and sustainable growth in the years to come."
No major announcements were
expected in the Washington talks but a flurry of press briefings could shed some light on the sometimes fraught relationship of the two intertwined goliaths.
Charles Freeman, a China expert at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington think-tank, said the dialogue's main purpose was to build confidence between Washington and Beijing.
"While the United States and China have developed an increasingly close relationship over the years, there still remains a fundamental sense of mutual strategic mistrust," Freeman said.
The United States, along with close US ally Japan, has voiced concern about Beijing's rapid military build-up; Chinese and US ships have repeatedly confronted each other at sea.
Beijing's human rights record has also long been a sore point, with many US lawmakers dismayed over recent ethnic violence in China's Muslim-majority Xinjiang province that left at least 192 people dead.
Clinton and Geithner made no direct reference to China's human rights record in their article but said Washington and Beijing "must be frank about our differ-
ences."
China is the largest creditor to the United States and has voiced growing concern about the fragility of the dollar and the safety of its more than 750 billion dollars invested in USIYeasury bonds.
Zhu Guangyao, assistant finance minister, told reporters in Beijing that China would press the United States to ensure the safety of its investments.
"As an important investor, China is deeply concerned about the US economic situation and hopes the US stimulus policy could make effective progress." Zhu said.