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China's Xi to make first state visit to U.S. as both flag problems

US President Obama(right) and Chinese President Xi Jingping(left)   PHOTO  ; COURTESY

Chinese President Xi Jinping will make his first state visit to the United States in September, China said on Wednesday, after both countries' leaders laid out possible areas of friction in a telephone call.

The world's two biggest economies have been trying to ease tension over everything from trade and human rights to exchanges of accusations of hacking and Internet theft.

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