Cleavage and Connection: Chinese heir apparent President visits White House

(From CBS News)

Protesters chanted "Xi is a liar "outside the White House Tuesday as President Obama and Vice President Biden met with Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping. He's slated to become leader of China's Communist Party in the fall, and president in 2013.

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President Barack Obama welcomed Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping to the White House Tuesday saying strong cooperation between the two powers is good for the Pacific region and the entire world.

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(From Foreign Policy Morning Brief)

As Xi Jinping, China's vice president and leader-in-waiting, made his rounds in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday, U.S. leaders focused on one issue in particular: trade. Vice President Joe Biden raised concerns about intellectual property theft and China's currency, noting that cooperation "can only be mutually beneficial if the game is fair." President Obama expressed a similar desire for everybody to play "by the same rules of the road." Senator John Kerry pledged to tell Xi the story of an American company whose technology was sold to China.


Xi, for his part, argued that any issues between the two countries should be resolved through dialogue and "not protectionism," urging the United States to lift restrictions on high-tech exports to China.

U.S. officials also discussed human rights and China's veto of U.N. action against Syria with Xi. After a State Department lunch, the Chinese vice president explained that China had made progress on human rights in the past three decades, though he added that there was "always room for improvement."