Seattle has deep relations with China and links US with China as a moajor city visited by Chinese former leaders Deng Xiaoping, Jiang Zemin and Hu Jintao.
70 metrobuses with images of six endangered animals of China: Giant Panda, Red Panda, Snub-Nosed Monkey, Tibetan Antelope, Crested Ibis and Red-Crown Crane, will travel around Northwest Washington and parts of Maryland and Virginia for five weeks since Monday.
President Xi Jinping first visited the United States in 1985, not long after the establishment of Sino-US diplomatic relations in 1979.
A top American foreign policy official vowed Monday that the US-China relationship is not a zero-sum game, as the US is "steadily and methodically expanding the breadth and depth of our cooperation with China."
Former US ambassador to China Gary Locke says the most important result of this week's meetings between Chinese President Xi Jinping and President Barack Obama will be "frank and candid'' discussions on contentious issues such as cyber security and market access to China for US companies.
It's almost human nature that, when trying to understand a different political system, people either generalize or overcomplicate it, or sometimes both.
Seattle is rarely the first US city that comes to Chinese minds. In fact, few people could probably tell Washington state from Washington DC.
Among the questions raised about President Xi Jinping's visit to the United States, the most puzzling could be related to his first stop, Seattle.
Many observers believe President Xi Jinping's visit will help push for earlier completion of the marathon talks on the Bilateral Investment Treaty.
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