CHINA-USA/RICE UPDATE U.S. national security advisor meets Chinese president in Beijing
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142214
CHINA-USA/RICE UPDATE U.S. national security advisor meets Chinese president in Beijing
- Title: CHINA-USA/RICE UPDATE U.S. national security advisor meets Chinese president in Beijing
- Date: 28th August 2015
- Summary: BEIJING, CHINA (SEPTEMBER 28, 2015) (REUTERS) ***WARNING CONTAINS FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY*** U.S. NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR, SUSAN RICE, WALKING IN AND SHAKING HANDS WITH CHINESE PRESIDENT XI JINPING XI SHAKING HANDS OF U.S. DELEGATES MEETING IN PROGRESS VARIOUS OF XI SPEAKING RICE LISTENING U.S. DELEGATES SITTING RICE SPEAKING XI LISTENING MEETING IN PROGRESS RICE WALKING IN AND SHAKING HANDS WITH CENTRAL MILITARY COMMISSION VICE CHAIRMAN FAN CHANGLONG BILATERAL MEETING IN PROGRESS VARIOUS OF FAN SPEAKING RICE LISTENING RICE SPEAKING FAN LISTENING MEETING IN PROGRESS RICE WALKING IN AND SHAKING HANDS WITH CHINESE FOREIGN MINISTER, WANG YI MEETING IN PROGRESS VARIOUS OF WANG SPEAKING VARIOUS OF RICE SPEAKING MEETING IN PROGRESS
- Embargoed: 12th September 2015 13:00
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- Location: China
- Country: China
- Topics: General
- Reuters ID: LVA616BP9QE4CSAN62KJHLN5T0JU
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: U.S. National Security Advisor Susan Rice met Chinese President Xi Jinping and Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Beijing on Friday (August 28), as part of her two day trip to the country to pave the way for Xi's visit to the United States next month.
Both sides have stressed the positives in their complex relationship during the meetings.
While the world's two largest economies have important mutual interests, like trying to rein in North Korea's nuclear programme, deep disagreements exist over everything from Internet security to China's claims in the South China Sea.
Rice also met Fan Changlong, one of the vice chairmen of the Central Military Commission, which Xi heads and which controls the Chinese armed forces, the world's largest.
Fan said that his meeting with Rice was the fourth in one year, which showed the importance the two countries attach to military-to-military relations.
Rice said the United States was committed to developing healthy and stable ties with the People's Liberation Army, and praised cooperation between the two over the Ebola outbreak in West Africa and efforts to fight piracy in the Gulf of Aden.
There was no mention in any of the comments in front of reporters of cyber issues or the South China Sea.
The United States has repeatedly expressed concern about Chinese reclamation work in the South China Sea. China says the United States is not a claimant nation in the dispute and should stay out of it.
China claims most of the South China Sea, through which $5 trillion in ship-borne trade passes every year, and rejects the rival claims of Vietnam, the Philippines, Brunei, Malaysia and Taiwan. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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