Experts, officials, media give active responses to Hu-Obama meeting

Source: Xinhua | 04-01-2009 21:40

BEIJING, April 1 (Xinhua) -- Chinese President Hu Jintao and U.S. President Barack Obama is to hold their first meeting on Wednesday on the sidelines of the G20 London summit, which has attracted active responses from international experts, officials and media.

Professor David M. Lampton, director of China Studies of the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University, said in an interview with Xinhua that the meeting reflects the fact that relations between the two countries are increasingly grounded in shared interests of stabilization of globally-important issues.

"This upcoming meeting reflects the evolution of the foundation for U.S.-China relations," Lampton said.

The professor said that the necessity for productive U.S.-China relations is now grounded in the common necessity of stabilization: stabilization of the global economy; stabilization of the regional and global counter proliferation systems; and stabilization of the global climate.

"In some sense, stabilization is the most common interest that China and the United States share," Lampton said.

"The issues we all are confronting and the domestic pressures in both countries mean that the issues our presidents will address are difficult, whether it be domestic economic and social policy, future global regulatory policy, climate change and so forth," the professor said.