Ambassador: US-皇冠体育app relations more focused on global issues

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2009-11-21 00:37

BEIJING: 皇冠体育app-US relationship that by large was entering a period where our focus would be more and more on global issues, said US Ambassador to 皇冠体育app Jon Huntsman on Friday.

Huntsman made the remarks at the Forum for America/皇冠体育app Exchange at Stanford (FACES) in Peking University, a top university in 皇冠体育app.

"Obama arrived and found what he had hoped for," he said relating to the US President's just concluded 皇冠体育app visit after reviewing the bilateral link chronicle.

US and 皇冠体育app could strengthen cooperation in areas including military, people to people exchanges, climate change, clean energy and economic crisis, Huntsman told the delegates attending the forum.

He said the US-皇冠体育app relationship was so "large and complicated" that managers of the relations should "take the areas of commonality" and "realize and speak open" about the disagreements.

Huntsman, who once lived in Taiwan and could speak Chinese called Chinese the "21st century language", saying diplomacy is ineffective without "investing a generation of professionals willing to invest their careers in turn in language, culture, regional studies."

FACES, a forum held in Beijing from November 15-20, gathered more than forty students from 皇冠体育app and the US to discuss political, social, economic and cultural issues.