Ne-Yo, lobster, lamb on menu for China state dinner

After a tense day of meetings, a powerhouse lineup mixing Hollywood, diplomacy and corporate America streamed into the White House for a lavish state dinner. Our students who cross the Pacific to learn from each other.

Seated with Obama and Xi at the head table were Apple CEO Tim Cook, Satya Nadella of Microsoft, Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg and Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff. Last year, Obama traveled to Beijing, and the two leaders strolled in the sprawling gardens next to the Forbidden City and met over a lengthy private dinner where details of the climate change agreement were finalized. Each contingent carried his or her own colorful banners against Xi Jinping.

That “joint dialogue mechanism” will consist of the U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security and the U.S. Attorney General as co-chairs, with involved representation from the FBI, the U.S. Intelligence Community and other agencies.

Senior USAofficials said the Obama administration had been preparing a package of sanctions in recent weeks aimed at China and other nations over cyberthefts of intellectual property.

They could still hack energy companies looking for resources in contested waters in the South China Sea; healthcare companies researching cures for diseases afflicting Chinese people; and any defense contractors who are making weapons for the USmilitary, Harvey said. Full details of the agreement were not revealed to not pre-empt the announcement, but it is understood that China will commit to a national cap-and-trade program starting in 2017 in which specific industries will have an annual limit on emissions.

“We must uphold the right direction of building a new model of major-country relations, make sure our relationship is defined by peace, respect and cooperation, and see through it that it keeps moving forward on the sound track of steady growth”, he said.

“China is not going to be the recipient of USAclimate financing, which is how some of our friends on the Hill are painting it”, said Schmidt.

“We will apply those, and whatever other tools we have in our tool kit, to go after cybercriminals either retrospectively or prospectively”, he said. He says he told Xi that “it has to stop”.

In their talks, Obama also pressed Xi to follow through on economic reforms and not discriminate against USAcompanies operating in China. While Obama’s aides say no formal cyber security agreement is likely, China’s top Internet regulator suggested in a closed-door session with USAexecutives in Seattle this week that a basic deal against cyber warfare was possible, according to one person present.

Xi, however, denied that militarization was taking place.

The USAearlier pledged $3 billion to a United Nations fund to aid developing nations reduce emissions.

“This doesn’t prohibit China from conducting cyber-espionage operations to benefit their military and people”, Harvey said.

Obama’s planned meetings with Xi have proved controversial since the state visit was announced months ago, and they’ve been a hot topic in the 2016 GOP field. Sen. Among the guests invited to the dinner was the China director for Human Rights Watch, a nod by the White House to the groups working to expose abuses by the Chinese government. Rebiya Kadeer (reb-EE-yah kah-DEER), an exiled minority Uighur leader, called for political prisoners to be released.

Washington’s 4-week-old panda cub is nameless no more.

The first lady has made headlines before in Wang’s designs. The name means “precious treasure”.

This morning, my wife and Mrs. Obama visited the panda house at the National Zoo.

Still, the results of Xi’s state visit left open the question of whether tensions had eased after squabbles over cyberhacks that attacked USgovernment and businesses.

President Barack Obama and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, said Friday that they were committed to creating a bilateral investment treaty between the world’s two largest economies.

Xi spoke to dignitaries and invited guests from both countries at a White House welcoming ceremony.