Senior Dialogue

Last updated February 21, 2019

The U.S.-China Senior Dialogue (also known as the China-U.S. Strategic Dialogue) was a regular, high-level strategic dialogue between the United States and the People's Republic of China.^[1] The Senior Dialogue has been upgraded to the strategic track of the Strategic and Economic Dialogue in the Obama administration and will be headed by Hillary Clinton and Dai Bingguo.^{[ needs update ]}

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Purpose

The Senior Dialogue was conceived at a 2004 APEC meeting, after a suggestion made by Chinese President Hu Jintao to U.S. President George H. W. Bush to create a forum where the global superpower and emerging global player could come together and discuss issues of mutual concern. The typically two-day rounds help establish a framework for bilateral cooperation between the two countries, and give the U.S. an opportunity to shape China's impact on the world as its economy continues to industrialize.

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Meetings

1st round: Beijing in August 2005
2nd round: Washington, D.C. in December 2005
3rd round: Beijing in October 2006
4th round: Washington, DC in June 2007
5th round: Guiyang in January 2008
6th round: Washington, DC in December 2008

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1st round

The first round, co-chaired by former Deputy Secretary of State Robert Zoellick and Dai Bingguo on August 1–2, 2005, addressed issues such as trade and economic issues, energy security, cooperation against terrorism, democracy, and human rights.

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2nd round

The second round took place three months later, on December 7–8, 2005, between Zoellick and Dai, and addressed Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, North Korea, Africa, terrorism, non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, energy security, and the risks of pandemic disease. Human rights, democracy, and the U.S.-China trade imbalance were also discussed.

3rd round

The third round of talks concluded on November 8, 2006, between former Undersecretary of State Nicholas Burns and Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi. Issues of discussion included North Korea, Iran, Darfur, Burma, APEC, and UN reform.

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4th round

Chinese and U.S. diplomats met on June 20–21, 2007 in Washington, D.C. to convene the fourth round of the Senior Dialogue - bilateral talks between the U.S. and China ongoing since August 2005.

Senior Dialogue leaders Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte and Executive Vice Foreign Minister Dai Bingguo met in 2007 for closed-session talks to discuss U.S.-China relations, and a range of global issues from Northeast Asian regional security, to Iran and Darfur.

Before the fourth round of talks began, the two leaders warmly exchanged welcomes and hopes for an optimistic outcome.

"This is part of the Senior Dialogue between ourselves and China," Negroponte began. "It's the first one that I'm having an opportunity to lead from the United States side. We look very much forward to our discussions over the next day and I'm delighted to welcome my counterpart from China, Mr. Dai Bingguo here to the Department of State."^{[ this quote needs a citation ]}

Dai thanked the mostly Asian news organizations in attendance before replying in Chinese, "This is also the first time that I will be meeting Mr. Negroponte and I hope we achieve a satisfactory result."^{[ this quote needs a citation ]}

5th round

6th round

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