国内英语资讯:Spotlight: Intl forum on U.S.-China relations calls for continued collaboration for win-wi_时事

国内英语资讯:Spotlight: Intl forum on U.S.-China relations calls for continued collaboration for win-wi

Mark Kirk, former senator from the U.S. state of Illinois, said the state's top employers, such as healthcare company Abbott Laboratories, "really depend on doing well in the Chinese market."

"It's just in our interest to have good relations with China. When you look at these big Illinois employers, they all look forward to the future in China as the best way to improve the company," Kirk said. "You have to look at building the relationship from the ground up."

David Lampton, an Oksenberg-Rohlen fellow and research scholar at Stanford University's Asia Pacific Research Center, said that the two countries have "very compatible economies in many respects."

"China needs products in agriculture, energy and technology, and the United States needs many of the things that China manufactures. Investment from China creates jobs in the United States," he said. "So in principle, we have a very compatible economic status, and we should cooperate."

HOPE FOR SUCCESSFUL TRADE NEGOTIATIONS

Many participants at the two-day forum, including prominent politicians, scholars and business leaders, expressed hope that the trade negotiations between the two countries could eventually lead to a successful conclusion.

The Osaka summit held last month was important because leaders of the two countries "said to their people, both on the staff level and the people generally that 'We want to solve this. We want to work together,'" said Edwin Feulner, founder of U.S. think tank The Heritage Foundation.