Xi Jinping and Barack Obama in Brokeback Mountain parody

On the day the Chinese leader meets his US counterpart at an informal summit in California, the British-based weekly newspaper parodied the film Brokeback Mountain, a story of the forbidden and secretive relationship between two cowboys.

Under the headline The Summit, the newspaper writes that the meeting gives both presidents the "chance to recast this century’s most important bilateral relationship".

Xi concluded his three-day state visit to Mexico on Thursday and departed for California, where he will meet Obama for the first time since taking office in March.

High on the agenda will be cybersecurity in the wake of allegations that China hacked US secrets.

On Thursday, family members of prisoners asked President Barack Obama to urge China’s new leader to free 16 inmates, saying human rights needed to be a priority at their tone-setting summit.