The September trip will be the first state visit to the US by Xi as president.
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Presidents Barack Obama and Xi Jinping meet at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, November 12, 2014.
The comments come as the White House announced U.S. National Security Adviser Susan Rice will travel to Beijing later this week to discuss a range a issues with Chinese officials. She said that both sides were looking forward to a successful meeting in Washington.
“Doing so will allow us to neutralize the threat posed by China’s rapidly growing forces and capabilities”.
While China’s more assertive foreign policy under Xi has raised concerns among U.S. military leaders and the two countries have been at odds over Internet security, Xi and Obama have forged a strong working relationship as a result of frequent meetings.
China claims virtually the entire South China Sea and has recently carried out major land reclamation in the area that analysts say will extend its military reach with the construction of bases and runways.
But bilateral interaction on defense affairs, including high-level visits and planned joint drills, continue as well among the two countries, which are each other’s second-largest trading partner. Property mogul Trump also says volatility in U.S. stocks in recent days is due to over-exposure to China where markets have plummeted on worries about the economy.
Rice also met with Fan Changlong, a vice chairman of the Communist Party’s powerful Central Military Commission, which is chaired by Xi.
Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee (R) and former Hewlett Packard CEO Carly Fiorina both blamed the market downturn on the Obama administration. In Obama’s remaining months in office, he can not stand his eight years as president ending in soured US-China ties. “And we’ve found spots of spread and deepened teamwork we are certainly waiting for developing when”, Rice advised China’s top-rated mediator, State Councillor Yang Jiechi, who might surpasses the odd cleric.
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“The President is going to speak candidly about the differences we have in this exceptionally and admittedly complex relationship”. With its currency move, China has complicated the path for a US-led trade zone in its backyard that would cover 40 per cent of global economic output and could, by virtue of size, complicate Beijing’s regional ambitions.
