White House aides, protocol officers and Secret Service agents became embroiled in a row with Chinese officials as to how many Americans should be allowed into the building before Mr Obama’s arrival.
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While at the Summit Sunday, President Barack Obama met with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan reassuring him that the U.S.is still intents to help bring plotters of July’s coup attempt to justice, CNN reported. A Chinese officials was heard shouting at a USA official, ‘This is our country! “This is our airport!”
Obama, who arrived on Saturday, held talks with Xi that ran late into the night.
The number of US journalists allowed to cover Saturday’s events went from 12 to six, six to three, and then there was one.
The White House wants to determine whether the Minsk ceasefire can be implemented before Obama leaves office in January, or whether economic sanctions on Russian Federation will need to be extended, the official said.
The Washington Post reports that Chinese officials said there wasn’t enough space for all of them in the room where Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping would meet, while US officials pointed to “a spacious area sectioned off for the media and citing arrangements negotiated long in advance”.
China and the United States ratified the Paris agreement to cut climate-warming emissions on Saturday, marking a major step toward the enactment of the pact as early as the end of the year and setting the stage for other countries to follow suit.
“That’s part of our job”, President Barack Obama said of any tensions in his visit to China. “That they have the ability to answer questions”, he said. And we don’t leave our ideals and values behind when we take those trips. “It can cause some friction”, Obama said.
Kerfuffles over press access are common in China, where the ruling Communist Party sees the media more as a tool for forwarding its political agenda than an independent check on governance. “You can’t pursue mercantilist policies that just advantage you now that you are a middle income country, in many ways, even though you still have a lot of poor people”, Obama said.
Speaking ahead of the opening ceremony on Sunday afternoon, Obama said people should not “over-crank” a series of heated altercations between USA and Chinese officials in the 24 hours since he arrived in the communist country.
The U.S. president issued a statement on the talks with world leaders.
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Shen Dingli, an worldwide relations expert from the prestigious Fudan University in Shanghai, told Singapore’s Straits Times that the USA should know well what they have done to upset China. Obama has since characterized the incident as overblown. Several other reporters have also had their applications rejected. Chinese officials say they want the G-20, created to coordinate the response to the 2008 financial crisis, to take on a longer-term regulatory role.
