The United States and China will hold two days of high-level talks next week in Washington that will focus on strengthening relations between the two countries. U.S. officials hope the annual meeting, or Strategic and Economic Dialogue as it is called, will help the world's two biggest economies push forward on a number of contentious issues, including the value of China's currency, intellectual property rights and market access in China for U.S. companies. VOA's William Ide reports.
