Cyberonenigheid belangrijk discussiepunt tussen Obama en Xi

President Barack Obama told Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday that the United States welcomed China's "peaceful rise" as a world power and said the two countries must work together to resolve thorny issues like cybersecurity.

At the start of a two-day summit at a luxurious desert estate in southern California, Obama said the world's two biggest economies must strike a balance between competition and cooperation to overcome the challenges that divide them.

But tensions over cybersecurity could test the two leaders' ability to get along in meetings billed as an informal get-to-know-you encounter at the Sunnylands estate near Palm Springs.