U.S. confers with allies on China energy efforts

The United States, Japan and Australia yesterday discussed China’s “aggressive” buying of energy assets in Africa and Latin America, the first time China’s “energy diplomacy” has been examined at an official international forum.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and the foreign ministers of Japan and Australia, Taro Aso and Alexander Downer, were unable to agree on steps to address the issue.
“It was a constructive conversation over China’s role in the region and its future role in the world, and how to make China a positive force within the international system,” State Department spokesman Sean McCormack told reporters traveling with Miss Rice.

Washington Times