President Barack Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping will test the limits of their personal ties Friday as they wade into issues that have exacerbated tensions between their nations: China's cyberspying in the U.S. and Beijing's territorial disputes in the Asian Pacific.
Discussions on both matters will play out against the backdrop of White House pageantry as Obama hosts Xi for a grand state visit, including a glitzy black-tie dinner. In keeping with the spirit of a state visit _ an honor bestowed on close partners _ the U.S. was emphasizing areas of agreement with Beijing, including on climate change.
U.S. officials said Obama and Xi would release a joint statement on climate change fleshing out how they plan to achieve targets for cutting carbon emissions set at a bilateral summit in Beijing last year. Xi also planned to announce a blueprint for a nationwide cap-and-trade system beginning in 2017, one that would cover highly-polluting sectors ranging from power generation to papermaking.
China will also offer a ``very substantial financial commitment'' to help poor nations transition to low-pollution technologies, the U.S. officials said, without releasing the exact figure.
Climate change is one of the few areas where bilateral cooperation has proceeded smoothly in recent months, largely because Beijing has struggled to contain heavy air, water and soil pollution that has destroyed farmland, sent cancer rates soaring and left its cities cloaked in dense smog.
The progress on China has been offset by disputes over cyberespionage and territorial disputes that have spooked U.S. partners in the region.
``The assumptions that many people had, that cooperation on transnational threats like climate change would ameliorate problems in geopolitical arenas were wrong,'' said Michael Green, White House Asian Affairs director under President George W. Bush and current senior vice president at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
U.S. officials have had hope for broader cooperation between Obama and Xi since their unusually informal 2013 summit at the Sunnylands estate in southern California. Last year, Obama traveled to Beijing, and the two leaders strolled in the sprawling gardens next to the Forbidden City and met over a lengthy private dinner where details of the climate change agreement were finalized.
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Friday, September 25, 2015
THE DEMOCRAT POTUS BHO AGENDA IS ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE -NOT AS TO HOW THE EARTH ROTATES AROUND THE SUN AND WOBBLES IN SOME DEGREE AROUND AN AXIS THAT CHANGES THE WEATHER MAKING IT UNCONTROLLABLE YET THE MINDSET THAT HUMANS CAN CONTROL THE THING CALLED THE WEATHER PHENOMENA–YET THE MAIN REASON THE DEMOCRAT POTUS BHO ACCEPTANCE OF THE COMMUNIST CHINA PRESIDENT XI IS ABOUT THE LEFTIST POTUS BHO AGENDA OF CONTROLLING THE WEATHER AT ALL COST–THUS THE SUMMIT WITH XI AND THE WILLINGNESS TO ACCEPT WITH ALL SMILES FROM THE BHO HIMSELF–SO IGNORE THAT COMMUNIST CHINA DOES NOT PROCLAIM THE SAME FREEDOM AND VIRTUE OF THE FOUNDING FATHER’S US CONSTITUTION–SO THE SAME WITH THE LEFTIST POTUS BHO RE-WRITING WITH THE PINNACLE PEN EXECUTIVE ORDERS SUBVERTING LAWS OF THE LAND–SO THUS HAND IN HAND THE TWO PRES WALKS THROUGH THE TULIPS OF LOVE
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