The US and China put on a show of harmony on Thursday as Joe Biden, US vice-president, started talks with Chinese officials amid global financial turmoil which has tested relations between the world’s two largest economies.
Senior US officials said China had expressed confidence in America’s economic strength and insisted that none of the harsh criticism Beijing has publicly directed at Washington had showed in the closed-door conversations.
The assertion comes as Washington is eager to build a relationship with Xi Jinping, the Chinese vice- president who is expected to become China’s next leader in late 2012, and not have bilateral relations disrupted by the lingering Chinese perception of a US decline.
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