Informal communications between Xi and Obama

March 14, 2013

A new type of inter-power relations

Newly elected President Xi Jinping held telephone talks with his US counterpart Barack Obama on the expansion of cooperation and mutual respect between China and the United States.

The US side hopes to work with China to maintain contacts between the heads of state of the two countries and strengthen communication and dialogue in a bid to promote steady development of bilateral ties and build a new type of inter-power relations, Obama said.

China firmly maintains and promotes the development of China-US relations, and would like to work with the United States in enhancing mutual trust, expanding cooperation, handling differences, and maintaining high-level contacts, Xi said.