China-U.S. dialogue draws worldwide attention

BEIJING: Foreign scholars and media have closely followed a just-concluded strategic dialogue between China and the United States, saying the healthy, stable development of their relations will not only serve their own interests, but also have a profound influence on global cooperation.

Shada Islam, director of policy at Friends of Europe, a Brussels-based think tank for the European Union (EU), said the two-day sixth round of the China-U.S. Strategic and Economic Dialogue (S&ED), which ended in Beijing Thursday, showed that the world's two major countries could talk directly with each other and seek to avoid an escalation of tensions.