Economics Is on Agenda For U.S. Meetings in China.

ELMENDORF AIR FORCE BASE, Alaska -- The United States on Thursday dispatched the first of a flotilla of senior officials to China for high-level economic and security meetings that are likely to be overshadowed by the rising tensions on the Korean Peninsula and the deepening debt crisis in Greece, which some fear will infect other European countries. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner are leading a delegation that will include nearly 200 policy makers and advisers, one of the largest groups of American officials ever to travel to a foreign capital for a single set of meetings. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]