PIVOTAL SUMMIT
United States President Barack Obama walks down the stairs after disembarking from his plane at Beijing’s international airport on Monday as he arrives to take part in the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit. Top leaders and ministers of the 21-member APEC grouping are meeting in Beijing from November 7 to 11. AFP PHOTO
United States President Barack Obama walks down the stairs after disembarking from his plane at Beijing’s international airport on Monday as he arrives to take part in the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit. Top leaders and ministers of the 21-member APEC grouping are meeting in Beijing from November 7 to 11. AFP PHOTO
United States President Barack Obama is visiting China for the first time since 2009, and following the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Summit will hold his fourth meeting with China President Xi Jinping. The two leaders are expected to meet in an informal setting, as they did at Sunnylands in California last year, when Xi Jinping first met Obama as president and put forward the concept of “New Type of Major Powers Relations” to guide the growing complex relations between the two countries.