Leave your feedback Share Copy URL https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/chinese-president-vows-cooperation-on-climate-change Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Tumblr Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Transcript Talks between President Barack Obama and Chinese President Hu Jintao yielded a promise of slowing down climate change and nuclear proliferation, but fell short of making progress on human rights. Kwame Holman reports. Read the Full Transcript Notice: Transcripts are machine and human generated and lightly edited for accuracy. They may contain errors. JIM LEHRER: New promises to slow climate change and the spread of nuclear weapons came today from the continuing U.S.-China summit in Beijing. But differences persisted over economic policy and human rights.NewsHour correspondent Kwame Holman has our lead story report. KWAME HOLMAN: There were smiles all around as President Obama and Chinese President Hu Jintao prepared to go into a meeting today that would last for two hours. The talks yielded no firm agreements. But the men who lead the world's largest economy and the fastest-growing one highlighted a pledge to make determined efforts to work together. U.S. PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: The major challenges of the 21st century, from climate change to nuclear proliferation to economic recovery, are challenges that touch both our nations, and challenges that neither of our nations can solve by acting alone.HU JINTAO, president, China: There are growing global challenges, and countries in today's world have become more and more interdependent. In this context, it is necessary to step up international cooperation. KWAME HOLMAN: Mr. Obama pointed to cooperation between Washington and Beijing on the nuclear front. BARACK OBAMA: President Hu and I discussed our shared commitment to stop the spread of nuclear weapons, and I told him how appreciative I am of China's support for the global nonproliferation regime as well as the verifiable elimination of North Korea's nuclear weapons program. KWAME HOLMAN: The president said, they agreed Iran's nuclear program should be handled through negotiations, for now. So far, the Chinese have balked at sanctions against Tehran.It also was unclear how far China will go on climate change. Mr. Obama said the two countries should rally the world at a global summit next month.President Hu was more cautious. HU JINTAO: We agreed to expand our cooperation on climate change, energy, and environment. We also agreed to act on the basis of the principle of the common but differentiated responsibilities and consistent with our respective capabilities to work with other parties concerned.