The Obama-Xi Summit 2013

June 7th, 2013

U.S. President Barack Obama (R) and then-Chinese-Vice-President Xi Jinping pose for photographs before meeting in the Oval Office at the White House February 14, 2012 in Washington, DC. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

U.S. President Barack Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping are set to meet in an informal summit at Sunnylands, the former Annenberg Estate, located in Rancho Mirage, California, on June 7-8. The summit was originally supposed to take place months from now, and the Associated Press takes the earlier date as "a sign that both sides want to stem a drift in ties" sooner rather than later. Xi himself was quoted recently saying, "The current China-U.S. relationship is at a critical juncture." He added that the countries must "build on past successes and open up new dimensions for the future."

Below, please find ongoing Asia Society coverage of the historic tete-a-tete. And please also visit our partner site ChinaFile for more on the topic.

Orville Schell: Summit an Opportunity for 'Breakthrough' in US-China Relations

On the eve of this weekend's summit, a veteran China-watcher says U.S.-China relations could stand a little Confucian "rectification."
Video: Don't Overstate the Meaning of Obama-Xi Summit, Says Ouyang Bin

Ouyang Bin, Arthur Ross Fellow at Asia Society's Center on U.S.-China Relations and Associate Editor of ChinaFile, wouldn't call Xi's first presidential state visit to the United States a historic meeting.
'Huge, Huge Stakes' at Obama-Xi Meeting

Asia Society's Tom Nagorski tells CNBC that summit can help repair severe "trust deficit."
Expert: 'Re-Opening' to China Obama's Most Important Diplomatic Initiative

Yale Law School's Paul Gewirtz explains what's at stake in the June 7-8 summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping and his American counterpart Barack Obama.
Video: Orville Schell on the Upcoming Obama-Xi Presidential Summit in California

As Chinese President Xi Jinping and Barack Obama prepare for their "casual" summit June 7-8 in California, we asked Orville Schell, director of Asia Society's Center on U.S.-China Relations, why this particular meeting is so important.
Dialogue, Not 'Deliverables,' at Summit

James B. Steinberg and Susan Shirk on the upcoming Obama-Xi meeting.