Mutual trust requires greater effort

WASHINGTON - China and the United States still have much to do to establish mutual trust even though the two countries have come a long way in developing a framework for pragmatic, mature and realistic cooperation.

This was the assessment of current China-US relations made by veteran US diplomats and distinguished academics during a forum co-hosted by China Daily USA and the US-China Policy Foundation to celebrate China Daily's 30th anniversary.

The current US-China relationship "is healthy in that it is quite pragmatic on both sides", Kenneth Lieberthal, director of the John L. Thornton China Center of the Brookings Institution, said in his keynote speech.