(MENAFN- Kuwait News Agency (KUNA)) Chinese President Xi Jinping and US Secretary of State John Kerry on Sunday discussed Sino-America ties and Xi's forthcoming state visit to the US, state-run Xinhua News Agency reported.
During their meeting in Beijing, Xi was quoted as telling Kerry that he looked forward to continuing to talk with the US President Barack Obama in September in a "candid and in-depth" way on the bilateral ties and other major issues to further expand cooperation and benefit the people of the two countries as well as the world at large.
The consensus between Xi and Obama to build a new model of major-country relationship is in the common interests of China and the US, he said, recalling Obama's visit to China last November.
"In my view, the China-US relationship remains stable on the whole," Xi told Kerry, highlighting new progress on trade, investment, the number of visitors to each other's territory, energy, and military-to-military and people-to-people exchanges.
The president also suggested the two sides expand practical cooperation to make their new type of relationship more fruitful.
"Meanwhile, the two sides should manage, control and handle disputes in an appropriate way so that the general direction of the bilateral relationship will not be affected," said Xi, expressing hope that the two sides would work together to enhance mutual trust, reduce doubt, and boost cooperation through more dialogues, to ensure that the bilateral ties would consistently grow along the right track of the new type of major-country relationship.
Echoing Xi's evaluation of the bilateral ties, Kerry said the extensive cooperation between the US and China had shown the world the important roles of the two nations in addressing major international and regional issues.
"It also proved that the two sides were able to manage their disputes in a matured manner," said the US official. "President Obama looks forward to continuing to exchange views with President Xi on issues of common concern during his state visit to the US in September, which the secretary of state said will be an important event for the bilateral ties," Kerry added. Kerry arrived in Beijing Saturday on his fifth visit to China as Secretary of State.
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