RANCHO MIRAGE: Presidents Barack Obama and Xi Jinping will seclude themselves in a desert oasis on Friday, for an unusually relaxed US-China summit, called to distil some early personal chemistry.

Allegations of Chinese cyber hacking and espionage, North Korea’s nuclear defiance and constant trade niggles between the world’s two single largest economies and possible future superpower rivals will dominate the talks.

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