By Han Dongping

February 12, 2015

"President Xi Jinping on Wednesday held phone talks with his US counterpart Barack Obama and accepted the latter's invitation to pay a state visit to the United States in September. Last week US National Security Adviser Susan Rice announced that the US invited President Xi Jinping to visit the United States this year. She also said that Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, South Korean President Park Geun-hye, and Indonesian President Joko Widodo, too, would visit the US this year.

By inviting the leaders of four Asian countries to the US in the same year, President Barack Obama seems to be making a last ditch effort toward the end of his eight years in office to make his hopeless "pivot to Asia" strategy a lasting legacy of his presidency."

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