Yesterday, Hu Jintao and Obama signed a number of cooperation agreements, which included agreement to promote denuclearization on the Korean Peninsula and attempt to maintain peace and stability between the respective parties. It also includes sections dealing new military cooperation to deal with terrorism, piracy, and regional hotspots. In addition, they agreed to increased exchange and cooperation in trade, the environment, and science and technology.
Significance
The meeting between the to leaders was an important step for China, a nation becoming in increasingly involved on the world stage. The meeting highlights the steps China is taking to bring itself, and its mighty economy, to the forefront of the worlds nations. The meeting also speaks of the mutual interest that both China and the United States have in the friction that has been occurring on the Korean Peninsula and it is not inconceiveble to imagine the two nations actively working in the same place that they warred over 60 years. All-in-all, the meeting illustrates the increasingly important role that the two nations have in each others economies, politics, and futures.
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