A former China adviser to U.S. President Barack Obama said he believes the administration looks forward to working with China on strategic issues facing the Asia-Pacific region, such as the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.

Jeffrey Bader, who served as the East Asia director of the National Security Council from 2009 to 2011, presented the view in an interview with Xinhua on Monday, as Obama's planned attendance at a nuclear summit in Seoul next week once again put the administration's ongoing policy priority shift toward the Asia Pacific region under spotlight.

Bader, who had overseen the formulation of the policy shift, said since the shift was made public, the administration has been having "close and intense" communication with the Chinese side.

Last year, by hosting an Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Hawaii and making a subsequent visit to the Asia-Pacific region, Obama made it clear that the United States is intended to shift its policy priorities to the region.

Bader said the administration believed from the outset that China could be playing a bigger role, especially on issues where China's role "had not been very great in the past," and where the U.S. side had "monopoly of influence."

Bader also said the policy shift to the Asia-Pacific region meant the G8, the group of the most advanced industrial countries, would no longer be the principal economic policy-making body in the world. Instead, the G20, where China and several non-European powers have much more influence and presence, could take the place.

The United States looks to develop a "strategic partnership with China" so as to deal with global issues jointly, not alone, said Bader.

"It was the acceptance of China's rise and the belief that the U.S. and China had to work bilaterally and multilaterally in the way that reflect the new realities in the world. That was a key element."

Bader acknowledged that there were both elements of cooperation and competition in the administration's calculation of how it is to deal with China under a new framework of Asia-Pacific policy, and that both sides have anxieties over the other side's intentions.

To resolve or mitigate such anxieties, the two sides have to sit and talk, said Bader.

He also praised the virtues of the annual economic and security dialogue mechanism between the two countries, saying "when you begin to have an open, candid dialogue, with top military people, and civilian people on both sides, you can begin to understand... what does the other side care about," and "sometimes you can accommodate to concerns of the other side."

This is the kind of dialogue that can expand, and ultimately help to avert future problems between the United States and China.