US President Barack Obama’s upcoming visit to China represents an “important milestone” in US-China relations, the top White House national security aide said Monday at a meeting with officials in Beijing.
National Security Advisor Susan Rice’s trip comes at a turbulent time in US foreign policy and just two weeks after Washington accused a Chinese fighter jet of buzzing one of its surveillance planes.
It also comes ahead of a one-on-one summit between Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping that is being planned to coincide with the US leader’s visit to the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Beijing in November.
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Source: The Jakarta Globe
