Monday 13 February 2012

XI JINPING GOES TO THE US

The Telegraph DEF

US PREPARES TO WELCOME CHINESE VICE PRESIDENT XI JINPING

Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping will visit the US this week for a crucial getting-acquainted visit aiming to strengthen trust between the sides.

The Telegraph, February 13, 2012

Xi is due to meet with President Barack Obama and other top officials in Washington on Tuesday. He will visit the Midwestern state of Iowa on Wednesday to meet local politicians and families with whom he stayed on a 1985 visit while serving as a local official in charge of the pork industry.

Xi finishes the US leg of his visit in California for meetings with business leaders and will stop in Ireland and Turkey before returning home. He was scheduled to leave Beijing later on Monday.

The US visit seeks to better acquaint politicians and opinion makers with the man widely expected to begin taking charge later this year of the world's second largest economy and biggest overseas holder of US government debt.

Despite their close economic links, China and the US remain major rivals in the Asia-Pacific region, with Washington's traditional alliances competing with China's economic and cultural influence. China sees the US as encouraging scepticism and dissent among neighbours in the region while trying to undermine communist rule by encouraging civil liberties and human rights causes.

Meanwhile, the perceived economic threat posed by China to the US has also featured prominently in the Republican Party presidential nomination process. One aspect of Xi's visit will be to gauge public perceptions of China in the US and seek ways of overcoming a lack of trust between the sides, a task made more difficult by disputes over trade, Taiwan, human rights and international concerns such as intervening in the ongoing violence in Syria.

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