What's in a picture? The unspoken messages in Xi Jinping's group portrait with CEOs and senior executives during his first state visit to the US

Photo: Reuters

Chinese President Xi Jinping (front row, center) posed for a group photo with Chinese and foreign CEOs and executives at Microsoft's campus in Washington on Wednesday during an internet industry forum, as part of his first official state visit to the US.

Xi will meet US President Barack Obama later in the week to discuss a range of thorny issues from cyber hacking to the devaluation of the yuan. 

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