President Obama will travel to China and Laos September 2-9, 2016. This trip will highlight the President’s ongoing commitment to the G-20 as the
premier forum for international economic cooperation as well as the U.S. Rebalance to Asia and the Pacific.
In
China, the President will participate in his final G-20 Leaders’
Summit, where he will emphasize the need to continue building on the
progress
made since 2009 in advancing strong, sustainable, and balanced global
economic growth. He will underscore the importance of G-20 cooperation
in promoting a level playing field and broad-based economic
opportunity. The President will also conduct in-depth
meetings with President Xi Jinping of China in Hangzhou, where the two
leaders will discuss a wide-range of global, regional, and bilateral
issues.
President
Obama will be the first U.S. president to visit Laos, where he will
participate in the U.S.-ASEAN Summit and the East Asia Summit.
Additionally,
he will have bilateral meetings with President Bounnhang Vorachith and
other key officials to advance U.S.-Lao cooperation on economic,
development, and people-to-people ties, among other areas. The President
also will participate in the Young Southeast Asian
Leadership Initiative Summit, where he will hold a town hall meeting.
During the ASEAN Summit, the President will discuss ways to strengthen
our economic cooperation with the countries of Southeast Asia, which
collectively represent America’s fourth largest
trading partner and further enhance our collaboration on regional and
global challenges. At the East Asia Summit, the President will
coordinate with the region’s leaders on efforts to advance a rules-based
international order.
This
visit also will support the President’s efforts to expand opportunities
for American businesses and workers to sell their products in some of
the world’s fastest-growing markets. Central to this effort is the
Trans-Pacific Partnership, the high-standards trade agreement that will
unlock key markets to American exports and cement America’s economic
leadership in the Asia-Pacific.
This is the President's eleventh trip to Asia since taking office in 2009.
Source: The White House, Office of the Press Secretary
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