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Chinese leader's visit 'an investment in the future'By Aamer Madhani and Calum MacLeod, USA TODAYUpdated 57m ago
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/story/2012-02-12/china-us-Xi-Jinping/53063132/1
WASHINGTON–This week's visit to the USA by the man in line to be China's next president is unlikely to provide any headline-grabbing deals or diplomatic breakthroughs, but Obama administration officials say Xi Jinping's American tour marks a crucial moment in the U.S.-China relationship. By Pairoj, AFP/Getty Images Xi Jinping waves to Thai students during a visit to Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok on Dec. 24. Xi is set to take over from President Hu Jintao.
The visit by Xi — who will succeed Hu Jintao as leader of the Communist Party this fall and is set to take over as president in March 2013 — is being billed as a getting-to-know-you opportunity for administration officials. "Given the expectation that Vice President Xi will succeed President Hu, this visit is really an investment in the future of the U.S.-China relationship," said Anthony Blinken, national security adviser to Vice President Biden. Xi's arrival comes during a complicated period between the two nations. Among the challenges on the table: Iran's and North Korea's nuclear aspirations, China's currency policy and China's policing of intellectual property. President Obama has laid out a plan to reorient U.S. defense strategy toward the Pacific — an issue Xi will certainly bring up in his meetings in Washington on Tuesday with Obama and Biden, as well as Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. The visit also is framed by the American political season. Republican leaders have been deeply critical of China's human rights record, and GOP presidential contender Mitt Romney has charged that Obama has treated China with kid gloves on human rights issues and has refused to cite China as a currency manipulator. In a speech before the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington on Friday, Romney escalated the rhetoric, vowing — if elected — to "cut off funding for the United Nations Population Fund, which supports China's barbaric one-child policy." Xi (pronounced SHEE) is scheduled to meet Wednesday with House Speaker John Boehner, who pressed Hu during the Chinese president's visit in January on China's one-child policy, which restricts couples to having a single child. The White House contends it has consistently pushed China on human rights. Obama publicly called for Hu to allow more freedoms during his state visit in January and pressed the matter in their private meetings. White House officials also say they remain concerned about China's currency policy but note that the renminbi has appreciated steadily. Both issues will be on the table during this week's talks with Xi. "We don't sacrifice the important issues for the sake of having a comfortable visit, nor do we shy away from candid private conversations with the Chinese on human rights," said Danny Russel, White House senior director for Asian affairs. In Beijing, the visit is being watched closely. Hu made a similar trip to the USA in 2002 before he took the reins of the Communist Party and was elevated to China's presidency. President Deng Xiaoping made a lasting impression during his visit to the United States in 1979 — donning a cowboy hat at a Texas rodeo and charming an American audience. "We would be happy if Xi can have a good image for him and China. Something like the cowboy hat would be great," said Shen Dingli, an international relations expert at Shanghai's Fudan University. Since Deng's death in 1997, some Chinese leaders have been "boring and not good at communicating and socializing. I hope Xi would behave as a very human and touchable person," he said. Xi, 58, appears much more personable than the reserved Hu. Xi's official biography suggests a more than competent leader, trusted with the top party jobs in the southern coastal province of Fujian, opposite Taiwan, then with the economic powerhouse of Zhejiang and later its neighbor Shanghai, China's financial capital. Former U.S. Treasury secretary Henry Paulson called Xi a "guy who really knows how to get over the goal line." "He certainly comes across as someone who is extremely well-prepared and thoughtful and very engaged," said Blinken, who accompanied Biden on his visit to China in August. China's government left out of his bio certain bits likely to be of interest to the people he will soon rule. Xi is a "princeling," the child of a senior communist leader who was persecuted under Chairman Mao. Until five years ago, when Xi was promoted to Beijing, more Chinese were familiar with his second wife, popular singer Peng Liyuan. He has a daughter who is a student at Harvard College. White House officials are intent on reciprocating the hospitality Xi showed Biden when he visited China in August. The Chinese vice president spent approximately 10 hours with Biden during the visit, according to Blinken. Biden will similarly invest long hours in the Chinese leader this week in the hopes of getting better insight into Xi. Xi is scheduled to spend much of Tuesday in meetings with top administration officials, and he'll end his day at the vice president's residence for a dinner with top staffers from both countries. Biden also will meet with Xi in Los Angeles on Friday, where they are scheduled to visit a school where students study Chinese, then the vice presidents will have a more intimate dinner. Before Xi goes to California, he will stop in Iowa — a state he visited in 1985. Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad, a Republican, will host a dinner for him Wednesday night in Des Moines, and he'll attend the first U.S.-China Agriculture Symposium on Thursday.
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