Setting aside their cyber and maritime disputes, President Barack Obama and China's President Xi Jinping on Saturday sealed their nations' participation in last year's Paris climate change agreement. The White House has attributed the accelerated pace to an unlikely partnership between Washington and Beijing. The leaders also had a "candid exchange" over the arbitration case between China and the Philippines, the White House said. The Trans-Pacific Partnership, a massive trade deal the White House calls a cornerstone of the policy, is stuck in Congress. If the deal clears the final hurdles, he said, "we'll have a truly global climate agreement that will bind the two biggest emitters in the world."

Source: ABC News September 03, 2016 06:32 UTC