Bridging the divide

We met. We talked. We will better manage our relations to the benefit of both our nations and the rest of the world.

This should be the message from the two-day meeting of the Strategic and Economic Dialogue (S&ED) between China and the United States, which concludes today in Washington.

As US Vice-President Joe Biden said, the relationship between China and the US, and how the two countries manage it, will shape the 21st century. It has become a consensus that Sino-US ties have implications far beyond their bilateral scope.