<正>THE talks between Chinese President Xi Jinping and his American counterpart Barack Obama on June 7 and 8 at Sunnylands in Rancho Mirage, California, marked the first face-to-face meeting between the leaders since Xi assumed of- fice and Obama won his second term. China and the U.S. share the world’s most important bilateral relationship; whether the talks would yield productive results or be mired in disagreement on key issues was the subject of much media speculation.