BEIJING, June 1 (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner on Monday said the United States and China must change strategies for boosting growth as U.S. consumer demand wanes, and he offered strong backing for a bigger Chinese role in setting global economic policy.
"China is already too important to the global economy not to have a full seat at the international table," Geithner said in prepared remarks for delivery to students at Peking University. He said global recession was easing but still "powerful and dangerous" in much of the world.
Geithner, on his first trip to China as U.S. Treasury chief, is holding two days of talks with top Chinese officials but opened his trip at Peking University, where he studied Chinese as a student in the 1980s.
(Reporting by Glenn Somerville; Editing by Ken Wills)