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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail Yahoo! Search Search: Sign InNew User? Sign Up News Home - Help Navigation Primary Navigation Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Top Stories Most Popular Secondary Navigation Australia China India Indonesia Japan Malaysia Philippines Thailand Vietnam Search Search: US, China pledge joint effort on economy, climate change AFP - Sunday, February 22 BEIJING (AFP) - - The United States and China glossed over differences on human rights as they pledged here Saturday to work more closely in tackling the global economic crisis and climate change. ADVERTISEMENT Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi set the stage for future joint action on the two crises, as Chinese activists said police had sought to muzzle them during Clinton's high-profile visit. Giving hope for a new era of cooperation between the world powers, the pair told a press conference they had already begun planning for the Group of 20 summit in London on April 2. The pair were to meet again next month in the United States to coordinate positions for the summit where Presidents Barack Obama and Hu Jintao were to hold their first meeting since Obama took office in January. Clinton told Hu that she and Yang had "agreed in principle to a strategic and economic dialogue that we will work on with the hope of having you and president Obama personally announce it." She also met Premier Wen Jiabao, who praised Clinton's call for international cooperation on combating the economic crisis. Reforming global financial regulations and international economic institutions will be among the top agenda items at the G20 summit. One of export-driven China's chief concerns is that the United States, the world's biggest economy, will put up trade barriers, as evidenced by a "Buy American" clause in the huge US stimulus package approved last week. But Yang said after his meeting with Clinton that they had agreed to "reject trade and investment protectionism". For the US side, Clinton indicated Yang had given her an assurance that China would continue to buy US Treasury bonds, which is seen as vital for the United States to help pay for its 787-billion-dollar stimulus package. "I greatly appreciate China's continued confidence in United States Treasuries," Clinton told a joint press conference with Yang. Yang was more circumspect, but signalled China would not deviate drastically from its US Treasury policies. "We will make further determinations about the ways and the means we will use our foreign exchange reserves," he said. "(But) I want to emphasise here that facts speak louder than words." Clinton said the two countries -- the world's biggest greenhouse gas emitters -- agreed they had a "shared interest" in producing a successful deal at the Copenhagen summit in December aimed at combating climate change. "The United States and China will build an important partnership to develop and deploy clean energy technologies designed to speed our transformation to low-carbon economies," Clinton said. Accompanied by her climate change envoy Todd Stern, she visited a General Electric power plant in Beijing that runs on natural gas, to highlight potential cooperation on clean energy. "This plant could be a model," Clinton said. In greeting Clinton, Hu expressed his great appreciation for her visit just one month after Obama took office, saying it "shows the new administration attaches great importance to developing relations with Asia and with China." On Friday, Clinton angered Amnesty International and others critical of communist China's attitude towards human rights when she said she would not allow the issue to block progress on the most pressing global problems. The Chinese Human Rights Defenders group also said Saturday that a number of dissidents had been put under residential surveillance, questioned and followed by Beijing police in an effort to silence them during Clinton's visit. Both Clinton and Yang said they had discussed human rights issues, but stood by general positions. Clinton said it was an "essential aspect" of US foreign policy, while Yang said it was "natural" for such different countries not to see eye to eye on human rights. On Sunday, Clinton will attend a church service and meet civil society leaders before flying home. Clinton began her Asian trip, her first overseas trip as secretary of state, in Japan on Monday, and then visited Indonesia and South Korea. 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