Xi and Obama: what happened when two of the most powerful men in the world got together
What did Xi Jinping want from Barack Obama? What did they agree or disagree on? We give you key takeaways from the two leaders’ meeting in Washington
China’s President Xi Jinping on Thursday urged his US counterpart Barack Obama to cast aside confrontation and to cooperate to manage the differences between the two powers.
The two leaders were meeting ahead of a global nuclear security summit in Washington to discuss a long list of issues that have strained ties between China and the United States in recent months.
Xi and Obama agreed that they remained committed to the denuclearisation of the Korean Peninsula.
They agreed to pass new stringent UN sanctions to punish North Korea for its recent nuclear and rocket tests and to press it to give up its nuclear weapons programme.
The two leaders reached partial agreement on issues including military exchanges and cybersecurity, and issued joint statements on nuclear security cooperation and climate change.