U.S. Vice President Joseph Biden (C, standing), stops at a local restaurant for lunchwith Gary Locker the new US ambassador in China in Beijing, China, 18 August 2011. Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping and his US counterpart Joe Biden pledged closer cooperation between their nations as they held talks that were expected to focus on global financial problems. He was also expected to discuss US arms sales to Taiwan and press China to let its currency appreciate. US politicians want China to strengthen the currency and remove barriers to imports to help reduce the US trade deficit with China,which hit 273 billion dollars in 2010. EPA/Ng Han Guan
Source: People’s Daily
Translted and edited by Yang Jingmin