US and China concluded Strategic and Economic Dialogue in Washington on Thursday.

The two countries announced to cooperate on bilateral trade and struggling with climate change. However the US and China could not reach a settlement in the fugitive CIA leaker Edward Snowden case. 

US Deputy Secretary of State William Burns said the US was 'very disappointed' with how China and Hong Kong handled Snowden’s case by refusing to extradite him before he flew to Russia.

“Over the past two days, we made clear that China’s handling of this case was not consistent with the spirit of Sunnylands (the resort in California where President Barack Obama met Chinese President Xi Jinping last month), or with the type of relationship, the new model, that we both seek to build,” Burns said.

Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi said, “Its approach is beyond reproach," referring to how the Hong Kong government had handled Snowden case. 

Yang also rejected US criticism of China’s human rights record in the ethnic minority areas of Tibet and Xinjiang Autonomous Region.

"People are enjoying happier lives and they enjoy unprecedented freedom and human rights there,”Jiechi said. "We hope the U.S. will improve its own human rights situation.”