Obama’s Moonlight Stroll With Xi; Oklahoma Shakes: Saturday Wrap
- Pence calls Clinton ‘most dishonest’ nominee since Nixon
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Here are highlights of Saturday’s top breaking stories from around the world:
Efforts by U.S. President Obama and Chinese President Xi to give every appearance of an improved U.S.-China relationship were marred by two incidents after Obama’s plane touched down in China ahead of a meeting of the G-20 nations beginning Sunday. A confrontation between Chinese security and U.S. National Security Advisor Susan Rice required the Secret Service to intervene. Still, the two nations agreed not only to sign the Paris climate change accord, but to measures seeking to cut down on the flow from China to the U.S. of fentanyl, the powerful synthetic opioid that killed pop music star Prince. Overcapacity in China’s steel production and its impact on world markets was an issue raised not only by Obama, but in the early version of the communique.