Obama said that their discussions Saturday would cover the breadth of the U.S. He specifically cited maritime disputes, cybersecurity and human rights concerns, though the president didn’t elaborate or stress the topics during brief remarks in front of reporters at the start of the meeting.
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“When Obama came in, he made a big a difference, he had new ideas, and he wanted to show at home and internationally that the US can drive the economic recovery”, said Paola Subacchi, International Economics research director at foreign affairs think tank Chatham House.
Observers of the G-20 will be judging the response to such initiatives, whether “positive, reticent or divided”, said University of Virginia China scholar Brantly Womack.
The United States has been pressuring China to step up its efforts to reduce excess industrial capacity.
China has already made clear it does not want such matters overshadowing the meeting, which will be attended by U.S. President Barack Obama, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, and other world leaders.
Many more countries must formally join the agreement for it to take effect.
Turkish President Erdogan has a very packed schedule, which includes meetings with Presidents Xi and Obama. -Chinese cooperation on climate change.
Chinese President Xi Jinping (R) meets with Laotian President Bounnhang Vorachit in Hangzhou, capital city of east China’s Zhejiang Province, Sept. 2, 2016. Together, they produce 38 percent of the world’s man-made carbon dioxide emissions.
The presence of many developing nations such as Laos, Chad, Senegal and Kazakhstan is also a key focus point of the Hangzhou Summit and will drive talks on inclusivity and sustainable development.
He credited China and the USA for “working together to achieve a result that none could achieve alone”.
Brazil and China are both partners in BRICS, a vital framework to strengthen multilateral cooperation in global governance, worldwide sustainable development and agreement on climate change treaties, said Xi.
The United States will also call for the Group of 20 leading economies to keep their steel industries from getting so big that factories are underused, Lew said in a preview of the USA message to the September 4-5 G20 summit in Hangzhou, China.
Obama says the United States is committed to being a global leader in the fight against climate change.
To that end, Beijing is eager to promote its work on climate change, its new infrastructure bank which poses a potent challenge to the World Bank, and a massive spending plan to build a new Silk Road. In the USA, no Senate ratification is required because the agreement is not considered a formal treaty.
Yu Maochun, an expert on Chinese politics at the U.S. Naval Academy, said China hopes the summit will offer a chance to “find a way to extricate itself from the current diplomatic flawless storm of its own making”, while presenting itself as a “modern, prosperous, confident and gracious host”.
The trade ministers agreed in Shanghai last month to lower trade cost, harness trade and investment policy coherence and enhance trade in services as part of coordinated efforts to boost global trade growth, which is top on the summit’s agenda set by China.
Moon and Xi urged other global leaders to accelerate their domestic ratification processes.
But the welcome ceremony didn’t go entirely smoothly.
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Even National Security Adviser Susan Rice and her deputy, Ben Rhodes, were briefly caught up in the dustup, as the official tried to keep them away, too.
