NAN – Chinese President Xi Jinping announced on Wednesday, February 11, 2015 that he is to pay his first official state visit to the United States.
President Xi had in a recent telephone conversation with U.S. President Barack Obama,he formally accepted the latter’s invitation to pay a state visit.
Washington has invited both Xi and Japanese President Shinzo Abe for state visits, in a sign of the Obama administration’s “pivot to Asia’’ foreign policy emphasis on the Asia-Pacific region.
Report says this will be Xi’s first official state visit to the U.S.
