By Xinhua Writers Wang Jiangang, Yang Xinhua
NEW YORK, June 16 (Xinhua) -- A noted U.S. foreign policy expert said Tuesday China and the United States should open more channels of communication to solve problems facing the two countries.
What China and the United States needed to do was to "open many, many more channels of communication, in order to see how the two of us can move forward, in order to see where our interests coincide and where our interests differ and where they differ," George D. Schwab, president of the National Committee on American Foreign Policy (NCAFP), told Xinhua in an exclusive interview.
"Let us talk to see how we can overcome (the differences)," said the professor, who is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a well-known non-partisan research organization and think tank specializing in U.S. foreign policy and international affairs.
Schwab co-founded the NCAFP, an American non-partisan foreign policy think tank, in 1974, and has served as its president since 1993. He is also the editor of the organization's bimonthly journal, American Foreign Policy Interests.
While praising the Economic and Strategic Dialogue mechanism between the two countries, he said, "I would strongly urge at different levels that mil-to-mil (military to military) would be very important, especially navy mil-to-mil, because friendship between our two countries are essential, absolutely essential."
