Dialogue with Jin Canrong

• Source: Global Times
• [11:59 November 12 2009]
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Jin Canrong, vice director of the School of International Studies at Renmin University of China.

Global Times: Compared with his predecessors, Barack Obama is the first US president to visit China in the first year of his term. And high-level officials from both sides have interacted frequently in this year. Do you think it means that the US’ policy on China has changed? Or is it’s Obama’s expedient measures due to the financial crisis?

Jin: Both factors work. On the one hand, under the financial crisis, Obama has to seek more cooperation with China. The other is that China is so important in the international community that it is reasonable for Obama to adjust the US policy to China.