Bloomberg reports on an upcoming meeting in New York between President Obama and Premier Wen Jiabao:
The two leaders will discuss “China-U.S. relations and other regional issues of shared interests,” Assistant Foreign Minister Liu Zhenmin told reporters in Beijing today.
Relations between Obama’s administration and China have been tested in recent months over the yuan’s value and by U.S. naval exercises with South Korea in the South China Sea. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in July offered to help resolve territorial disputes in the waters, provoking a rebuke from China, which claims much of the sea as its own.
China “welcomes” Obama’s upcoming meeting with members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations and doesn’t see U.S. outreach in the region as “targeted against any third country,” Liu said today.
