Xi Accepts First State Visit to U.S. in September on Obama Call
Source: Bloomberg
by Ting Shi
1:09 AM EST February 11, 2015
(Bloomberg) -- President Xi Jinping will pay his first formal state visit to the U.S. in September after he accepted an invitation from Barack Obama during a phone call yesterday.
During the conversation, the two leaders agreed to make “full preparations to ensure the success of the trip,” the official Xinhua News Agency said today. The two leaders discussed issues ranging from China’s market reform to thornier topics such as cybersecurity, according to the White House.
The trip will mark the first time Xi visits the U.S. as a head of state, as the world’s two biggest economies seek to boost cooperation and smooth tensions such as territorial disputes between China and its neighbors that are U.S. allies in the Asia_Pacific. In June 2013, Obama hosted the newly-minted President Xi in Sunnylands, California in an informal, shirt-sleeves summit.
During the call, Obama “encouraged” China to continue to move toward consumer-led growth and a market-determined exchange rate, and called for “swift work” to narrow differences between two countries on cybersecurity issues, according to the White House. The two leaders also agreed to work together on other security issues, including nuclear negotiations with Iran.
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