{"id":14450,"date":"2012-11-20T01:11:22","date_gmt":"2012-11-20T01:11:22","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-11-20T01:11:22","modified_gmt":"2012-11-20T01:11:22","slug":"Obama-meets-Wen-after-political-transitions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?p=14450","title":{"rendered":"Obama meets Wen after political transitions"},"content":{"rendered":"

President Barack Obama met Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao on Tuesday, in the highest-level exchange between the two sides since the US presidential election and power transfer in China.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Wen and Obama met at the East Asia Summit in Cambodia<\/strong>, as tensions rise over maritime territorial disputes in the region which are nagging the always friction-prone relations between Washington and Beijing.<\/p>\n

Both men stuck to familiar talking points in a short photo-op<\/strong>, and ignored questions shouted by reporters about South China Sea showdowns which have centre stage at the summit.<\/p>\n

Obama said that, as the world’s two largest economies, China and the United States had a “special responsibility” to work together<\/strong> to ensure sustained and balanced growth and to establish “clear rules of the road” on trade.<\/p>\n

His comments were a veiled reference to the trade and currency disputes<\/strong>, and issues such as intellectual property piracy and commercial duties over which his, and previous, US administrations have haggled with the Chinese.<\/p>\n

Wen congratulated Obama on his re-election this month and sent the regards of the man he referred to as China’s “newly-elected” leader, Xi Jinping.<\/p>\n

Xi was installed as the head of the ruling Communist Party after a tightly scripted party congress which culminated this month in Beijing<\/strong>, and he is expected to succeed Hu Jintao as national president next March.<\/p>\n

Wen told Obama the two sides could work together on business<\/strong>, economic and finance issues — where they are intertwined — to tackle “the difficulties we have and resolve the differences and disagreements between us”.<\/p>\n

Washington has become increasingly frustrated with Beijing over its refusal to back stronger measures against the Syrian regime<\/strong>, while trade disputes fester between the two nations.<\/p>\n

Obama took a tough line on some aspects of Chinese trade and economic policy during his re-election campaign, covering his political flank as Republican candidate Mitt Romney flailed away at Beijing.<\/p>\n

The United States has called on China to manage territorial disputes in the South China Sea <\/strong>with a regional code of conduct that would ease tensions, but Beijing wants to discuss disputes only with individual claimant nations.<\/p>\n

Our Prez is working it! Go Obama!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Source AFP<\/em>
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