US President Barack Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping will mention politics, economics, and security including North Korea’s nuclear program, territorial disputes, Asia-Pacific maritime security, and their military activities in their 2-day talks in California from this Friday. This will be the very first informal dialogue between top US and Chinese leaders ever. The informality will diminish protocol and procedural speeches in focusing on issues of common concerns. A White House official said in today’s press conference: " The goals of the meeting are to get to know and start working with the guys who the President will deal with over the next 4 years to communicate the President’s priorities that they concern but also to hear from Xi Jinping to identify further some areas for practical cooperation and future conversation. I think that both leaders will just give priorities to denuclearization and economic growth".

The top concern will be attacks to the US’ economic and defense data system that were believed to be carried out by Chinese cyber spies. A US high-ranking official said cyber attacks are a serious threat to the US and all countries must comply with international laws on cyber security. Regarding US-China conflict threat, the kind observed previously between an existing power and a newly emerging one, the White House official said: " Both leaders have recognized that they are in danger that the rising power and established power could come to the conflict at some points. To avoid the kind of this trap of rivalry between rising power and established power, it’s important to put in place the interactions between 2 mechanisms that allow them to deal with degraded sources, instability, and competition that could take the relationship down the path way".

The US said that, despite profound disagreements, bilateral ties are still growing in many fields, particularly in economics and most recently in North Korea’s nuclear program.