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A girl presents a bouquet to US President Barack Obama after he arrives at Shanghai Pudong International Airport on Nov. 15, 2009.(Xinhua photo)
"It is important to pursue pragmatic cooperation with China on issues of mutual concern, because no one nation can meet the challenges of the 21st century alone," Obama said in his Asian policy speech Saturday in Japan.
"So the United States does not seek to contain China, nor does a deeper relationship with China mean a weakening of our bilateral alliances. On the contrary, the rise of a strong, prosperous China can be a source of strength for the community of nations. And so, in Beijing and beyond, we will work to deepen our strategic and economic dialogue, and improve communication between our militaries."
"It is part of the Obama administration's new diplomatic strategy to come to China at such an early stage of his tenure," according to the Europe Times newspaper based in Paris.
Jin Canrong, vice director of the School of International Studies at Renmin University of China, said that China and the US have entered an "era of consultation" that guarantees bilateral collaboration.
"The two countries are in urgent need for cooperation under the current circumstances," Jin said.
China has been enjoying rising international prestige with growing economic strength, putting the two nations at a comparatively equal footing in their dialogue, Jin said.
Although Obama's speech sounded a bit "diplomatic," Jin said. "He spoke the truth that the US believes it's not the time anymore to contain China."
"Obama's trip comes at a time when the US needs China as much as China needs it, and neither nation can afford to let go," The Guardian newspaper reported Saturday.
The New York Times said Saturday, "Unlike his immediate predecessors, who publicly pushed and prodded China to follow the Western model and become more open politically and economically, Mr. Obama will be spending less time exhorting Beijing and more time reas-suring it."
"China represents the first time in any American's lifetime that the United States is faced with a country that it cannot coerce… And there is no real stick for Americans to wield when it doesn't like how China behaves," New York-based The Huffington Post reported online Friday.
"For America, China is a 'welcome to the real world' phenomenon, a case where the United States has to do what most other societies have learned to do for centuries: deal with things they don't like in other countries without being able to force them to behave differently," it said.
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Permanent Representative to the United Nations Susan Rice and National Security Advisor James Jones also arrived in Shanghai last night.
Presidents of the two countries have met several times since Obama took office. They agreed to forge positive, cooperative and comprehensive ties in London in April and pledged to further such relations during another meeting five months later in New York.
Obama's visit to China will be of great significance for the development of Sino-US ties in the new era, Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi said Satur-day.
After his four-day visit to China, Obama is due to wrap up his first Asian tour in South Korea.
Kang Juan and Zhang Han contributed to this story
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