The two leaders apparently held fast to their positions on hot button issues like cyber-security and brokering a cease-fire in Syria.
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“The one thing that we have to ensure we do is to move in concert with other countries, because there is always a danger that if one. acts unilaterally, that it’s not just a matter of a USA company being impacted, but it may also have an impact in terms of our ability to collect taxes from that same company”, Obama said. “I think we have reached mutual understanding”, he told reporters, adding that the nations’ top diplomats have now been tasked with working further on the “technical” questions.
President Barack Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping pose for photographers as they shake hands before their meeting at the West Lake State Guest House in Hangzhou in eastern China’s Zhejiang province, September 3, 2016.
In talks that Obama described as “blunt” and “businesslike”, the two leaders met after Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Secretary of State John Kerry met for the second time in a week to narrow their differences over the Syrian conflict.
In China, Erdogan said he told all world leaders at the Antalya summit a year ago that “in Syria a safe zone could be set up. and we could solve the refugee crisis”. Russian Federation was one of the first countries to express support for the Turkish elected authorities during a coup attempt in July this year.
Negotiators on both sides have spent weeks poring over maps of potential areas where opposition groups operate and where Assad’s forces would be prohibited from launching airstrikes. “It is indisputable that it would create a better deal for us than the status quo”, Obama said. “We’re moving into a new era where countries have significant capacities but frankly we have more capacity than anybody, both offensively and defensively”.
Mrs May also pushed Mr Putin over the need to secure access for aid convoys and demanded an end to the alleged bombing of civilians in Syria.
“In exchange, Russian Federation would prevail on its ally, the regime of Bashar al-Assad, to stop bombing moderate rebel groups and civilians”, David reported in July. Mr Putin even claimed a deal could be reached within days.
When Obama did find his way on to a red carpet on the tarmac below there were heated altercations between United States and Chinese officials.
Russian Federation supports Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his regime, while the US doesn’t.
But the diplomatic efforts were unsuccessful, Obama said at a press conference on Monday.
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“That is a very risky dynamic”, Obama said.
