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Xi, on his first state visit to the US, will be hosted at the White House for a banquet on Friday. “I indicated that it has to stop”, Obama said. But he added warily: “The question now is, are words followed by actions?”

The US and China may emerge from Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit with some progress made on cyber concerns.

Last week, he told Chuck Todd on NBC’s Meet the Press that he would “not advocate that we put a Muslim in charge of this nation”, Carson said.

“The question now is: Are words followed by action?” As recently as May of this year, the U.S. Department of Justice charged six Chinese nationals with stealing trade secrets from two American companies.

US President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama greet Chinese President Xi Jinping and his wife, Peng Liyuan, as they arrive for a State Dinner at the White House in Washington, DC, September 25, 2015.

The USA and China may emerge from Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit with some progress made on cyber concerns.

The US and China announced agreement on broad anti-hacking principles aimed at stopping the theft of corporate trade secrets though President Barack Obama pointedly said he has not ruled out invoking sanctions for violators.

At Friday’s joint news conference, President Xi defended Beijing’s claim to the area and said its construction work on artificial islands there doesn’t target any country and stressed that it “doesn’t intend to pursue militarization”....

“The United States government does not engage in cyber economic espionage for commercial gain”.

As the two leaders spoke, dozens of pro- and anti-Xi protesters gathered near the White House grounds, waving flags, beating drums and shouting slogans.

President Barack Obama offered Mr Xi Jinping a warm welcome at the White House on Thursday, greeting his Chinese counterpart with a “ni hao”, or Mandarin for “how are you?”, at the start of a tricky state visit.

Meanwhile, White House spokesman Josh Earnest said the United States will contribute almost US$419 million (AU$ 592 million) in humanitarian aid to help Syrian refugees. Part of the funding will go towardmedical care, including vaccination against measles and polio, safe drinking...

Presidents Obama and Xi agree that the USA and China won’t steal corporate secrets from each other, but the wording is so full of loopholes that CISOs shouldn’t take too much comfort in the pact for quite a while.

A joint statement to be released following Friday’s summit between President Barack Obama and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping aims to flesh out how their two countries plan to achieve targets for cutting emissions set at a bilateral summit in Beijing previous year.

Xi was also treated to a State Department lunch with Vice President Joe Biden, Secretary of State John Kerry and others.