China's leader Xi to make 1st state visit to US in September

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China's leader Xi to make 1st state visit to US in September

BEIJING (AP) — China's leader Xi Jinping will make his first state visit as president to the United States in September, Chinese official media reported Wednesday, underlining positive momentum in the often-troubled relationship between the world's largest economies.

The state-run Xinhua News Agency said Xi had accepted President Barack Obama's invitation to visit in a telephone call between the two overnight. The announcement came as U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Tony Blinken was in Beijing to meet Chinese officials.

Obama visited China in November to attend the annual summit of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum during which he held a separate day of meetings with Xi.

Obama and Xi also met in the U.S. in June 2013 for an informal summit at the Sunnylands estate in Rancho Mirage, California, a meeting cited by the Chinese side as helping redefine ties based on equality and mutual respect.

The U.S. and China have been working together on a range of high-profile issues, including pledging to cut back on their emissions of greenhouse gases. At the same time, the two have clashed diplomatically on several fronts, including over cyber-espionage allegations and Chinese actions asserting its maritime territorial claims against U.S. treaty partners Japan and the Philippines.

The White House said Obama and Xi held a wide-ranging telephone conversation on Tuesday night, touching on issues from China's assistance to West African nations battling the Ebola virus to prospects for a U.S.-China investment treaty.

The two also reaffirmed their commitment to closely coordinate on threats to global security. It singled out efforts to encourage Iran to respond positively in negotiations over its nuclear programs with the five United Nations Security Council members, including both China and the U.S., along with Germany.

Speaking to reporters in Beijing on Wednesday, Blinken said his visit aimed to "deepen our practical cooperation, to manage our differences and to deliver tangible results for the people in China and the United States and others in the world."


-- (c) Associated Press 2015-02-11

[Somtamnication]

Simply a cosmetic pr campaign. They will conquer the world in about 50 more years, with the Han Chinese already everywhere. Similar to what the muslims are doing to Europe. Slowly but surely.

[Costas2008]

I hope Xi Jinping, will ask Mr Obama, at the meeting, to stop interfering into Thailand's internal affairs.

Thailand is a sovereign country, responsible for their own destiny.

They don't need the Americans or the Chinese telling them how to govern their own country.

Thailand is an ally to both of those countries and they should be respected as such.

[rickirs]

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I hope Xi Jinping, will ask Mr Obama, at the meeting, to stop interfering into Thailand's internal affairs.

Thailand is a sovereign country, responsible for their own destiny.

They don't need the Americans or the Chinese telling them how to govern their own country.

Thailand is an ally to both of those countries and they should be respected as such.

I may deflate your ego but Thailand is but a mole on China's Asian ass - separate and distinct but only noticeable when China decides to hit the toilet. And as far as Thailand's sovereignty is concerned, Tibet, Hong Kong, and Taiwan might lend some advice to the Junta about just how meaningful it is to the Chinese. And please, Thailand is not a "ally" to either China or the USA - it is at best a "partner" being dependent on both for its economic livelihood.

[squarethecircle]

In other words, the emperor is going to go and pimp-slap Obama with the back of his hand.

[rickirs]

It would seem that China and the USA are capable of having a pragmatic (albeit complex) political and economic relationship while vying for political and economic dominance. Both over many, many years have criticized the other relating to both domestic and international issues. Some conflicts resolved, some tabled, and some unresolved. But at no time has either "cut the Gordian Knot" when seemingly unresolvable conflict exists. This is how mature and advanced nations co-exist.

Then you have the Junta who, with less than a few lightly critical comments from a USA envoy about Thailand's internal affairs, shifts the entire country's political allegiance to China. The Junta places the security of the nation into the hands of a country known for its disrespect for KINGDOMS, human rights and liberties, and RELIGION. And for that the Junta is placated by soothing chinese words of ego stroking and hopes of prolonging the Junta's power over the Thai People's sovereignty.

[Publicus]

When Prez Obama was in Beijing the past November he and Xi Jinping signed several treaties to include climate change and shared talk of common problems. When Xi goes to Washington in September, things will be less pleasant and that is the design of it.

They will discuss disagreements, to include Taiwan, Tibet, the South China Sea and Asean, the East Sea and Japan, India, cyber theft, CCP laws that discriminate against foreign corporations and much more.

Two matters of Beijing's domestic economic policies are a priority of Prez Obama that Xi does not want to hear about.

One is the insistence of Western investment houses and individual investors that, as a vital part of its reform plan for the economy, Beijing publish a list of state corporations that are exempted from further and radical marketization reforms. This sort of list would establish a baseline of the reforms. The belief remains throughout the West that the marketization presented in the Decisions Plan reform document is a bridge too far for the CCP to take, because it would seriously diminish its control over the economy and financial system starting with the yuan. Publishing such a listing would allow the West to better assess the efficacy of the reform process, which is seriously lagging and largely ineffective so far.

A second powerful CCP domestic matter Prez Obama will pursue with Xi is to allow the People's Bank of China, the central bank, a freer, greater and independent role in monetary matters to include interest rates and the vital need to reverse current sharp trends toward deflation in the PRC. Unlike the CCP Central Committee, its Party Congress and the Politburo, to include its ultimate authority the 7-member Standing Committee, almost all of the economists and financial experts at the PBOC are Western educated and thus have a greater familiarity of market economics and monetarism than do the incestuous CCP Party Boyz at the bank and elsewhere.

At the rate the CCP's economy is declining and the yuan weakening however, much about them will have changed by September so we'll have to see what things look like there then.

[Publicus]

This is an interesting reality in the Obama-Xi relationship....

http://hqlenglish.blogspot.com/2014/11/china-is-poorer-than-it-appears.html