Chinese President attends a press conference after the 11th summit of the Group of 20 (G20) major economies in Hangzhou, capital of east China’s Zhejiang Province. Saying that they discussed “a range of issues”, the American president noted the situation in Syria was the most important of them. When titans clash the spectacle is hard to miss as was the case with the so called Obama “death stare” that has the web buzzing.
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“We haven’t yet closed the gaps in a way where we think it would actually work”, Obama said during a news conference in Hangzhou.
The president says he hopes to make progress in accounting for missing USA servicemen from the Vietnam war.
The talks came hours after Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov were unsuccessful in their attempts to strike a deal for a Syria ceasefire, according to a senior State Department official.
“I have noted that some United States media have been making an issue out of the small episode between the staff of the two sides when President Obama arrived at the Hangzhou airport, and they made flimsy connections based on speculation”, Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying said on Monday.
Obama has expressed skepticism that Russian Federation would hold to its agreement.
At around the same time, Chinese President Xi Jinping was telling his South Korean counterpart, Park Gyun-hye, that China is opposed to the deployment of a powerful USA anti-missile system in South Korea.
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday he had urged world powers at a G20 meeting to set up a “safe zone” in Syria where there would be no fighting and which could help stem migrant flows from the Arab nation.
Obama said it was not an anti-American gesture and that it was clear that the San Francisco 49ers player is honest and “cares about some real, legitimate issues”.
At a separate press conference on the results of the G20 summit, U.S. leader Barack Obama also talked about his meeting with Putin.
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At the press conference Monday, Obama also addressed concerns about cybersecurity, acknowledging that the USA has “had problems with cyber intrusions” from Russian Federation and other countries.
