Cartoon commentary, President Xi attends nuclear security summit①: Xi-Obama meeting boosts Sino-US relations

On March 31 US local time, Chinese President Xi Jinping and US President Barack Obama held a one-on-one meeting on the sidelines of the fourth Nuclear Security Summit at the Washington Convention Center. It's their first meeting this year, which has attracted the world's attention.

Xi and Obama had held an in-depth exchange of views on a wide range of issues of common concern, while reaching a series of important consensus and obtaining a number of positive achievements.

Beijing and Washington had jointly issued the third Sino-US Joint Statement on Climate Change and the Statement on Sino-US Nuclear Security Cooperation, which had received much praise from the international community.

In recent years, Chinese President Xi and US President Obama have held several meetings, including a one-on-one meeting in Sunnylands, CA.,in June, 2013 and an evening discussion at Yingtai, in Zhongnanhai Compound of Beijing in Nov. 2014.

The Xi-Obama meeting at the White House had coincided with President Xi's second visit to Washington this year that has strengthened Sino-US deep strategic communications, enriched Sino-US new major-country ties and injected new momentum to bilateral relations.

The launch of two joint statements between China and the US reflects promising pragmatic cooperation, which can be deemed an engine with double driving forces that benefit both countries and the world at large.

By Xu Xiujun, deputy director of International Politics and Ecomonics Department, Institute of World Economics and Politics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; cartoon drawing by Liao Tingting