Clinton's Myanmar trip 'won't hurt ties'

BEIJING - The United States has no intention of negatively influencing China-Myanmar relations, a US official said on Tuesday.

Ambassador Derek Mitchell, the US special representative and policy coordinator for Myanmar, was in Beijing on the third leg of his Asia trip to brief China on Washington's improving relations with the Southeast Asian country after Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's visit.

Mitchell said in his meetings with Chinese officials he wanted "to gain perspectives about how China is thinking about things and see if there might be opportunities to coordinate, cooperate and work together in the interests of regional stability as well as the interests of the (Myanmar) people", according to Reuters.