U.S. President Barack Obama will be looking for signs that China's leaders at their upcoming meeting, Beijing is ready to address the high-tech espionage its report, the White House considered as the number one threat to U.S. economic and national security.
Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping talks, will focus on cyber espionage as well as with other strategic and economic issues between the U.S. and Chinese officials from the July meeting. Secretary of State John Kerry announced that the United States and China meeting, when he visited Beijing in April.
Friday and Saturday at the California real estate but also for the summit between Obama and Xi'an personal relationship, as the two global power relationships become increasingly complex.
Obama needs to Xi from North Korea and Iran to curb the nuclear threat against violence in Syria, and continue to help the U.S. economic recovery.
Was their first meeting at the end of publishing magnate Walter Annenberg once owned 200-acre Sunnylands estate in Xi'an since March came to power. Talks also the former leader of the next few months originally planned to meet, emphasizing the potential of fracture in the relationship between the two countries growing concern.
Network security is likely to be prickliest problems, China cyberhacking increased interest in Congress on the extent and regularity about how the United States punish Beijing for its actions given a new report.
The Chinese government denied that it engaged in espionage against the United States, this, but analysts say Beijing has begun to show some of the willingness to solve this problem with Kerry's national security adviser Tom Donilon and other private talks.
China has been "more active in the non-public meeting," Network security expert James Lewis, a former State Department official. Lewis said Obama's conference goal is to "test whether China has really moved to a better location, they want to engage."
A senior Obama administration official said that in recent talks, the Chinese seem to be less dismissive of American concerns about cyber attacks, however, this problem will not resolved at a meeting.
Despite the progress made in private conversations subtle signs, security analysts say there is little evidence that Chinese hackers have eased.
"If the Chinese government wants, it wants inhibit its activity, a signal to the United States, the U.S. government will see to it that we will see it, said:" Richard Bejtlich, a company headquartered in the United States Mandiant's chief security officer. "But it has always been the same."
Defense Hagel said Saturday at a security conference in Singapore, the United States has expressed concern about the "growing threat of cyberintrusions, some of which seem to be tied to the Chinese government and military."
Obama and Xi Jinping were not expected to meet until September, the international economic summit in St. Petersburg, Russia on the sidelines. But the United States to see signs that Xi is able to organize his government more quickly than in the past Chinese leaders, government officials, and led the U.S. to conclude that this is the best Obama to meet as soon as possible hope.
The official requested anonymity to discuss internal administration discussions.
The White House hopes will be easily set up in Sunnylands lend themselves more direct, more free-flowing discussion. President's wife in the manor will join their ranks.
"This conference is a huge investment of both relationships and healthy relationship," Hachigian Nina said that in the Center for American Progress, a China expert. "This is seen as a very special Chinese."
Xi's visit logistics have been intense negotiations, the United States and China in all meetings between the case. The Chinese government is often the limited media access, although the White House said on Friday that U.S. officials are trying to arrange an opportunity for a reporter's question, the two leaders at the summit ends.
President Bush held a somewhat similar meeting in 2002, he presided over the then Chinese President Jiang Zemin at Bush's ranch in Crawford, Texas.
There is little hope that the summit will result in any specific policy decisions. However, until recently, served for East Asian and Pacific Affairs Kurt Campbell, Assistant Secretary of State, said that the discussion of network security and Korea have a "real potential for progress, not because of some great good will, but because China is serious in two positions. "
Shift from his predecessor, Xi Jinping and North Korea have taken a harsh tone. He told the North to return to the United States and other world powers in nuclear talks and warned of its young leader, no country "should be allowed to throw a region and the entire world into chaos self-interest."
U.S. long-term push China on North Korea to take more aggressive action, and welcome Xi Jinping opinion. China is North Korea's most powerful ally and largest trading partner.
Financial issues are also expected to become the world's largest economies in the talks between the leaders of a prominent theme. Xi Jinping may be required by China's enterprises in the U.S. market discrimination.
Xi Jinping is Washington's military assets to Asia, and re-emphasized with other countries in the region alliances may express deep discomfort. See China strategy, called Obama for his Asian "pivot" efforts to curb Beijing's rising power.
Meeting in Singapore, the Chinese leaders to expand the U.S. military a role in the Pacific after questioning, Hagel said he wants better military ties between the two countries.
Xi Jinping Meets with Obama for the first time last year, fortune, and then visit the White House, Vice President. Greece has a warm relationship, along with Vice President Joe Biden to travel throughout China in 2011, Biden visit.
Xi Jinping has a deeper relationship than his predecessor United States. He frequently visited the country and stay he lived in Iowa Muscatine, contact with their families, while in 1985 the provincial officials to visit. His daughter studied at Harvard University.
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