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US President Barack Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping head for their bilateral meeting at the Annenberg Retreat at Sunnylands in Rancho Mirage, California, on June 7, 2013/AFP

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Obama, Xi forge rapport in debut summit

Mirroring his host’s theme of a new approach, Xi said on Friday that “the vast Pacific Ocean has enough space for two large countries like the United States and China.”

Obama also gave Xi something not every world leader has: the huge wooden park bench on which they sat to chat.

“President Obama’s gift to President Xi was a custom-designed park bench. The bench is inscribed on the front with the dates of this visit, and, in Mandarin, the fact that the bench is made of California redwood,” the White House said in a statement,

Out on a stroll of the grounds of Sunnylands, where the leaders held their talks, Xi and Obama sat for a moment together on the bench, said Obama’s deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes.

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