In the half-hour telephone call, Clinton made clear he was determined to move forward with talks aimed at generating U.S. support for China's entry into the World Trade Organization.
Unions have been less than enthusiastic about the vice-president because of his support for trade with China.
His company, Naga, which has offices in Beijing, Hong Kong and Shanghai, specializes in providing support for investors looking for a way into the China market.
While the United States may not be able to afford the scale of support for clean energy that China can, it can compete by focusing on what it has always done best: innovation.
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All three countries are looking to China for support: Venezuela and Ecuador have signed investment agreements, and Argentina has a currency-swap line aimed at reducing its need for dollars.
Whilst Mr Gore, conscious of his union supporters, held back a little in his support for permanent trading relations with China, Mr Bush, who comes from the free-trading, pro-immigration side of his party, was more effusive about globalisation.
China declared its support for steps to stop illicit trafficking of nuclear material in what correspondents describe as an uncharacteristically prompt response to a US initiative.
In government-bond markets, China's support for wobblier states may well dwindle as 2013 gets nearer: then a new euro-zone sovereign-debt fund will be able to promote the claims of European governments on some countries above those of other creditors.
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Led by China and America, support for green tech is rapidly becoming one of the biggest industrial-policy efforts ever.
He wanted China to get into the WTO, both for the prestige it would bestow on the nation in the eyes of the world, and for the support it would give to China's reforms.
China has said it will withdraw support for foreign investment in the country's car industry to encourage domestic carmakers, according to state media.
International environmental nongovernmental organizations and their counterparts in China are working aggressively to provide grassroots support for environmental protection.
Yes they understand China is now a big player, so they direct diplomacy towards China direct investments, and seek Chinese support for the Euro.
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Mr Noda's government is currently grappling with the territorial dispute with China and also trying to win public support for a hike in sales tax aimed at reducing public debt.
Mr Kim's recent visits to China made clear that, notwithstanding Chinese support for UN sanctions against the North, he accepts that friendly ties with the regional giant remain crucial to his country's survival.
The former U.N. secretary-general arrived in China on Tuesday to meet with officials and rally support for his plan to end the violence.
To shore up some support, Apple's CEO Tim Cook last week traveled to China for the second time in ten months -- a visit interpreted by some as an effort to fight Apple's falling market share in the country.
Finding popular support to act unilaterally while playing a competitive game within established frameworks is much easier for China.
However, Volkswagen has been operating in China for over 25 years, and it understands that having the support of the media and the government, not just the consumers, is important to continuing success in the country.
For years, China has been told that its economic policies need to support domestic demand and enable the economy to switch away from exports, and they have made a substantial and sensible step in the right direction.
Earlier, aides to Mrs Clinton - who is on a tour of the Gulf to try to build support for more sanctions on Iran - revealed she would press Saudi Arabia to help persuade China to support a tougher stand against Iran's nuclear ambitions.
For China Mobile has been quite vocal about the fact that it would not support large handset subsidies even for an iPhone which would work on its network.
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And key, of course, to achieving this, among other things, is for China and other surplus emerging market economies to take fiscal and other measures to support domestic consumption as well as allowing exchange rates to reflect market forces.
Like many other companies that operate in China, Huawei receives tax incentives provided by the Chinese government to high-tech enterprises and support for some of our research and development initiatives.
In Zhejiang, the first Chinese province to provide support for the rural elderly, the sex imbalance at birth has almost disappeared, according to Xie Zhenming, editor of China Population Today.
And given the importance of maintaining American support for talks to liberalise trade in financial services, to expand the North American Free-Trade Agreement and to bring China into the World Trade Organisation, an upsurge of Japan-bashing and anti-import rhetoric in Washington would quickly affect the rest of the world.
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