By Nicole Gaouette, Bloomberg

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton urged Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi to engage in dialogue with the Dalai Lama, according to a U.S. official who wasn’t authorized to speak on the record.

Clinton met Yang before a regional security meeting today in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. U.S.-China relations were strained after President Barack Obama met with the Dalai Lama in 2010.