Dialogue 'key to relations'
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Xi urges US to respect China's core interests, properly
handle differences
Strengthening dialogue and cooperation is the "correct
choice" for China and
the United States,
President Xi Jinping told visiting US Vice-President Joe Biden on Wednesday.
He also urged the US
to respect China's
core interests.
Xi made the remarks amid rising tension in East Asia,
triggered by competing territorial claims by China
and Japan.
Japan's
reaction to China's
newly announced air defense identification zone was reported to be high on
Biden's agenda.
"Both sides should keep the bilateral relationship
going in the right direction, respect each other's core interests and major
concerns, actively expand practical cooperation, and properly handle sensitive
issues and differences," Xi told Biden at the meeting.
He reiterated China's stance on the air zone.
Washington is willing to
manage differences with Beijing
in a constructive manner and avoid letting them affect bilateral ties, Biden
was quoted in a Foreign Ministry news release as saying.
Biden said he believed Xi is a candid and constructive
person.
"In developing this new relationship, both qualities
are sorely needed," Biden said during the meeting.
"Candor generates trust," he said, adding that the
US-China relationship must be "based on trust and a positive notion of
each other's motives".
Biden and Xi have built good personal relations. During
Biden's trip to China two
years ago, Xi, then vice-president, accompanied him on a trip outside Beijing. Biden also
accompanied Xi on his US
trip in February 2012.
On Wednesday, Xi led high-ranking officials to meet Biden,
and their talks lasted much longer than scheduled.
The air zone covers China's
Diaoyu Islands,
on which Japan
also claims sovereignty. Japan
and many other countries including the US established such air zones of
their own decades ago.
Beijing has repeatedly said
it is Japan that first
changed the status quo in the region by "nationalizing" the Diaoyu Islands
last year.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei said on Wednesday that China has maintained communication with the US over the air
zone issue.
He said Beijing has briefed Washington on the legitimacy, openness and defensive
nature of the air zone and expects understanding, respect and coordination from
the US.
On Tuesday in Tokyo, Biden
called on Japan and China to find ways to reduce tensions, saying Washington was
"deeply concerned" by the announcement of the zone.
He pledged to raise the issue directly when he met Xi.
However, Biden did not follow Japan
by publicly calling for Beijing
to retract the zone, or agree to issue a joint statement on this issue.
After Japan
requested its airlines not to follow China's
new air zone rules, the US
government advised its airlines to notify Chinese authorities of flight plans
to avoid misunderstanding.
Jin Canrong, a professor of international studies at Renmin
University of China, said that Japan
cannot be fully satisfied by Biden's assurance of support on Tuesday.
Japan's
online media leader, the Nikkei Online Edition, said on Wednesday that
"the Japanese government wants to contain China
through cooperation with the US.
... But the US government
believes that excessive partiality on Japan
will draw opposition from China."
Tao Wenzhao, a senior research fellow on US studies at the Chinese Academy
of Social Sciences, said Biden has tried to positively guide the impasse
between China and Japan by
highlighting the need for crisis management mechanisms between the two
neighbors.
Jia Xiudong, a senior researcher of international affairs at
the China Institute of International Studies, said: "Washington
should not hold double standards for China
and Japan
on this issue. It is supposed to play a constructive role in reducing the
tensions rather than fueling them."
Biden told Xi that Washington
is greatly impressed by the decisions made during the Third Plenum of the 18th
Central Committee of the Communist Party of China held in early November.
China's
development is fully in the interests of US, he said.
The possibilities are endless if the US and China can get
their relationship right, he said.
Later in the day, Xi held a banquet in Biden's honor.
Biden will have breakfast with US business leaders and meet
Premier Li Keqiang on Thursday before leaving for Seoul.
Mo Jingxi contributed to this story.
Contact the writers at lixiaokun@chinadaily.com.cn and wujiao@chinadaily.com.cn.
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