US First Lady Michelle Obama meets Chinese President Xi Jinping and his wife Peng Liyuan

(21 Mar 2014) US First Lady Michelle Obama met Chinese President Xi Jinping on the first day of her visit to China on Friday. Accompanied by his wife Peng Liyuan, Xi had a group photo with Obama, her mother Marian Shields Robinson and two daughters Sasha and Malia. In the meeting, Xi recalled his meeting with President Obama at Sunnylands estate in California last June and asked Michelle Obama to come back to China with her husband in November when Beijing hosts this year's APEC (Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation) leaders' summit. Michelle Obama arrived in Beijing on Thursday. She visited a high school in Beijing and toured the Forbidden City earlier on Friday with Chinese First Lady Peng Liyuan. The visit marks the first meeting between Obama and Peng, whose husbands run the world's first and second largest economies and have sought to build a new relationship based on trust and mutual respect. Her China visit has been seen as a prelude to an upcoming meeting between Xi and Obama at a nuclear security summit in The Hague, when more thorny issues would be raised. Aides for the First Lady have said she is staying away from contentious issues but is keen to promote education and people-to-people exchanges during the seven-day, three-city visit. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...