A group of what is known as P-5 leaders share a lighter moment after posing for a photo at the 67th session of the U.N. General Assembly at the world body's headquarters on Thursday, Sept. 27, 2012. From left are Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice, and British Foreign Minister William Hague. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)
Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi addresses the 67th session of the United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters on Sept. 27, 2012. (Associated Press)
Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi addresses the 67th session of the United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters on Sept. 27, 2012. (Associated Press)
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, meeting with Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Tuesday, is in Beijing to press Chinese authorities to agree to a peaceful resolution of disputes with their smaller Asian neighbors over competing territorial claims in the South China Sea. (Associated Press)
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, meeting with Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Tuesday, is in Beijing to press Chinese authorities to agree to a peaceful resolution of disputes with their smaller Asian neighbors over competing territorial claims in the South China Sea. (Associated Press)
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton meets with Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Beijing on Tuesday, Sept. 4, 2012. Mrs. Clinton is in China's capital to press Chinese authorities to agree to peacefully resolve disputes with their smaller neighbors over competing territorial claims in the South China Sea. (AP Photo/Feng Li, Pool)
China's Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi speaks March 6, 2012, during a press conference at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. (Associated Press)
**FILE** U.S. Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. (left), U.S. Ambassador to China Gary Locke (second from left) and Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi (right) talk after Biden's arrival at the Capital International Airport in Beijing on Aug. 17, 2011. (Associated Press)
"There is now a good atmosphere in China-U.S. relations," said Yang Jiechi, China's foreign minister. (Bloomberg)
