NEW YORK With the Republican primaries raging on, the death of Whitney Houston and United States President Barack Obama submitting his 2013 budget to Congress on Monday, there has been plenty of news to compete for attention. Yet the visit by Vice-President Xi Jinping made major headlines in the US on Monday.
The second leg of Vice-President Xi Jinping's trip will be Iowa where he visited 27 years ago when he was a Party official in Hebei province.
During the meeting with US President Barack Obama, the two leaders pledged to keep strengthening relations while speaking candidly about differences.
Visiting Chinese Vice-President Xi Jinping held talks Tuesday at the White House with his US counterpart Joe Biden on deepening Sino-US relations.
When young Iowa governor Terry Branstad signed an agreement to establish a relationship with China's Hebei province in 1983, he planted seeds of friendship.
Visiting Chinese Vice-President Xi Jinping said here Tuesday that China's position on Syria is aimed at safeguarding peace and stability in the Middle East.
Xi Jinping suggested that China and the United States promote "strategic mutual trust" by respecting each other's core interests.
A healthy and stable Sino-US relationship is crucial to both nations and globally important, Vice-President Xi Jinping and US President Barack Obama agreed.
When governor Terry Branstad planted the seeds of friendship between the state of Iowa and Hebei province in 1983, he could not have imagined the fruit they would bear. Special
China is ready to work with the United States to advance people-to-people exchanges.
Iowa's universities have experienced a rapid surge in enrollment by Chinese students in the past few years, officials report.
Chinese Vice-President Xi Jinping, who arrived in Washington on Monday, said the purpose of his visit is to advance the building of the China-US ties.
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