After her visit to Indonesia, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will arrive in Beijing on Tuesday and discuss a range of issues of common concern with top Chinese officials.

The South China Sea issue, the Diaoyu Islands issue and the conflict in Syria will be on top of the agenda of discussion. Experts in China gave their analysis of her visit.

Jin Canrong, Deputy Dean of School of Int'l Studies of Remin University of China, said, "She will try to calm the Diaoyu Islands dispute properly, because any worsening of the issue will be dangerous. The real target for the US is to harm China’s relations with neighboring countries. The US wants China to experience some hardship, but not to the extent of a war."

Her coming visit demonstrates that US attaches great importance to China-US relations. On the other hand, she may also want to wrap-up her efforts in Asia in the past two years. But it seems that few achievements have been made. What she needs now is to sum up the China- US relationship."

Tao Wenzhao, expert of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, said, "The Obama admistration’s shift of focus to Asia will give some Asian countries the illusion that the policy will become something that they can depend on.

The countries, including Japan, Vietnam and the Phillipines, think that they can showcase tough attitudes on China because of the policy.

This is very dangerous as far as I am concerned."

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