Dialogue with Joseph Nye

• Source: Global Times
• [15:58 November 12 2009]
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Global Times: During President Obama's visit to China, on which problems will the two sides be most likely to make breakthroughs on? (Climate change, security or cooperation on dealing with economic crisis.)

Nye: I think the economic crisis has to have priority, because with China and the US being such large parts of the international economy, they have to have cooperation if they were going to stay off any type of crises, and reach various cooperative solutions. I think close behind that will be discussions on climate change since both of us will be going to Copenhagen in December, and again they are the two largest producers of greenhouse gases. So getting some sort of approach to agree between China and the US will be very important in climate change area as well.

And as for the security aspect, I don't see any major security problems right now between the US and China. But I imagine there will be some discussions how they will keep things that way.