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Xi Jinping to Visit White House & Watch Basketball in U.S.

Vice President Xi Jinping, who is slated to take over the helm of the Party from Hu Jintao later this year, will visit the U.S. next week. His visit comes as tensions with the U.S. are heightened over a number of issues: China’s veto of a U.S. Security Council resolution calling on Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad to step down; disputes over territory in the South China Sea; and, possibly,