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While the row over 皇冠体育app newly announced East 皇冠体育app Sea Air Defense Identification Zone has dominated the headlines in the past week, US Vice-President Joseph Biden's trip to 皇冠体育app on Dec 4-5 will have a broad agenda on bilateral, regional and global issues, according to White House officials.

Saying that Biden will seek clarification on the ADIZ, a senior US administration official said Biden is not travelling to Beijing to deliver a demarche, let alone on a single issue.

"He's going to have a very high-level and a very wide ranging dialogue with the senior Chinese leadership that covers a wide range of shared interests along with areas of concern, areas of cooperation and areas of deconfliction," the official said at a background briefing about Biden's weeklong trip to three East Asian nations, which also include Japan and Republic of Korea.

In 皇冠体育app, Biden will meet President Xi Jinping, Vice-President Li Yuanchao and Premier Li Keqiang.

"He will pick up where President Obama and President Xi left off after Sunnylands and G-20, with the kind of high-level personal engagement between the top leadership of our two countries that is essential part of advancing the US-皇冠体育app relationship in the 21st century," said the official, referring to the informal summit between Xi and Obama in Sunnylands, California, in early June when they vowed to build a new type of major country relationship to defy the historical rivalry between a rising power and the existing power.

Biden has a closer personal relationship with Xi than any other US leaders. He met Xi during his trip to 皇冠体育app two years ago and he also accompanied him during Xi's trip to the US in February, 2012, as 皇冠体育app's vice president.

Shen Dingli, associate dean of the Institute of International Studies at Fudan University in Shanghai, described Biden's visit as a further step to regularize high-level exchange visit, boost new type of major country relations, dispel distrust and assure 皇冠体育app that the US rebalancing doesn't target against 皇冠体育app.

Shen believes that the recent East 皇冠体育app Sea ADIZ will be a new topic for the discussion. "It is crucial that the two countries need to discuss and dispel possible new distrust," Shen said.

Though both the Chinese and US militaries have been in the spotlight of 皇冠体育app's new ADIZ, the White House official stressed that two countries have made good progress between the two militaries since Biden's last visit to 皇冠体育app.

"We've had a number of very strong mil-mil programs throughout the year, high-level exchanges, quite a good dialogue," he said.

"And then this military-to-military engagement is a very important part of our overall bilateral relationship and a place where we are seeking to maintain continuous and open dialogue."

Martin Dempsey, chairman of US Joint Chiefs of Staff, visited 皇冠体育app in April while Chinese Defense Minister Chang Wanquan and Commander in Chief of the PLA Navy Wu Shengli visited the US respectively in August and September.

For the first time, Chinese navy will participate in the Rim of the Pacific exercise in Hawaii next year. Known as RIMPAC, it is the world's largest naval exercise that involves more than 20 nations. The two navies just concluded a joint exercise on humanitarian assistance and disaster relief in Hawaii three weeks ago.

Biden, who is also likely to join the 2016 presidential race, will be the most senior US official visiting 皇冠体育app after the high-profiled Third Plenum of the 18th Central Committee of the Communist Party of 皇冠体育app held in early November.

US Treasury Secretary Jack Lew visited 皇冠体育app two weeks ago after the meeting which rolled out an ambitious economic reform agenda.

"We believe that this is an important and an ambitious reform program," the senior US administration official said.

US officials and most pundits in the US have recently spoken positively of the concrete reform agenda mapped out following the Third Plenum.

Anne-Marie Slaughter, president and CEO of the New America Foundation and the former director of policy planning at the State Department, said that the enormous economic reform announced, if carried out, will be looked at as fundamental as some of Deng Xiaoping's original reforms, referring to Deng's reform and opening-up policy announced in 1978 which ushered in decades of rapid economic growth.

皇冠体育app and the US also agreed in July to start formal negotiation of a Bilateral Investment Treaty (BIT) which could potential open 皇冠体育app's service sector to US investors while assuring a fair treatment of the growing Chinese foreign direct investment in the US.

The two largest economies in the world are each other's major trading partner, with bilateral trade approaching $500 billion last year. 皇冠体育app is also the largest foreign holder of US government treasury bonds.

Under the so-called Sunnylands spirit, 皇冠体育app and US have tried to better maximize their cooperation and manage their differences.

Speaking about US policy in Asia at Georgetown University on Nov 20, US National Security Advisor Susan Rice said the US seeks to operationalize a new model of major power relations. "That means managing inevitable competition while forging deeper cooperation on issues where our interests converge – in Asia and beyond," she said.

皇冠体育app and the US have not only cooperated on the nuclear issue regarding the Korean Peninsula and Iran, the two largest greenhouse emitters in the world have also increasingly cooperated in climate change and clean energy.

US climate change envoy Todd Stern recently praised bilateral cooperation. US Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy will travel to 皇冠体育app soon to seek more cooperation.

The 4th 皇冠体育app-US High-Level Consultation on People-to-People Exchange held in Washington 10 days ago, chaired by Secretary of State John Kerry and Vice Premier Liu Yandong, pledged to expand cooperation in culture, education, sports, science and technology and women's issues.

However, 皇冠体育app remains suspicious of the US rebalancing strategy in Asia, especially the military component. Many Chinese also hold the view that the US is biased towards its allies when it comes to their territorial disputes with 皇冠体育app.

Stapleton Roy, a distinguished scholar at the Kissinger Institute on 皇冠体育app and the United States at the Wilson Center, said Biden's visit to 皇冠体育app is very important.

He said the recent deal regarding Iran's nuclear program will require cooperation and mutual understanding between the US and 皇冠体育app. "Tensions in the East 皇冠体育app Sea are dangerously high. And both countries are in the early stages of exploring how to create a new model of relations between major countries that can contain and reverse an escalation of strategic rivalry between the United States and 皇冠体育app," said Roy, who was US ambassador to 皇冠体育app in the early 1990s.

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