By Xinhua
Beijing : China and the US will hold the fifth round of strategic dialogue here Jan 17-18, foreign ministry spokesperson Jiang Yu said here Thursday.
Dai Bingguo, Chinese Deputy Foreign Minister and John Negroponte, US Deputy Secretary of State will co-chair the dialogue, Jiang said at a press conference.
“The two sides will continue to have an in-depth exchange of the views on Sino-US relations and the international and regional issues of common concerns based on the previous four dialogues,” she said.
The dialogues were initiated as part of the consensus reached between Chinese President Hu Jintao and the US President George W. Bush in 2004.
The two countries use this platform to communicate on strategic and political affairs. The first strategic dialogue was held in Beijing in August 2005.