-china relationship and jon thornton who himself is a one-man think tank.i want to thank him for his friendship and his vision and his guidance in particular their resulted in bringing us here today. winston churchill used to say famously you never kiss a person who's leaning away from you. you never climb a mountain that is leaning towards you. and you never speak to a group that knows a hell of a lot more about the subject matter can you do, which is the cardinal rule that i am violating this morning. my friends in china have another way to say it. [speaking in chinese] in just a few hours, president hu will arrive in washington. for the first state visit by a chinese leader since 1997 when visiting the clinton. strobe talbott remembers that. my good friend, ken lehman -- sleeper fall who remembers that. think about it. almost 15 years have passed. the world has changed a lot since then. when deng visited we revivalist a relationship and i believe president hu's visit will have a similarly significant impact on where this relationship will go in the decad

development strategy on this timely important process to be that brookings a special thanks to jon thornton, stir until it and can lead in fall. and to the entire team congratulations on your visit that brought all of us here today. i'm going to discuss three topics. first the u.s. and chinese energy economies, second, the reason it makes sense for us to cooperate and third, some of the programs we have under way to do exactly that the rate of what we start with some basic statistics. together china and the united states consume about 40% of the world's energy, a little bit less. it goes to 2008 and is trending upwards in 2009. together it accounts for more than 40% of global greenhouse gas emissions. china is currently the largest emitter of greenhouse gases. the u.s. is the larger historical a matter if you get this dhaka for the last 20 years of the greenhouse gas emissions but in both of our country's. but there is still a big gap in the per-capita energy use as you can see here this is primary consumption and millions of btu per person. china much, much lower than the united states. bu

-china relationship and jon thornton who himself is a one-man think tank. i want to thank him for his friendship and his vision and his guidance in particular their resulted in bringing us here today. winston churchill used to say famously you never kiss a person who's leaning away from you. you never climb a mountain that is leaning towards you. and you never speak to a group that knows a hell of a lot more about the subject matter can you do, which is the cardinal rule that i am violating this morning. my friends in china have another way to say it. [speaking in chinese] in just a few hours, president hu will arrive in washington. for the first state visit by a chinese leader since 1997 when visiting the clinton. strobe talbott remembers that. my good friend, ken lehman -- sleeper fall who remembers that. think about it. almost 15 years have passed. the world has changed a lot since then. when deng visited we revivalist a relationship and i believe president hu's visit will have a similarly significant impact on where this relationship will go in the deca