The importance of China-US relations and the clout of each country on the world stage guarantee that the upcoming summit meeting between President Xi Jinping and his US counterpart Barack Obama will be an attention-grabbing event.

The China-US summit, the first since Xi took office in March and Obama began his second presidential term, is scheduled on June 7 and 8 in California. It is an invaluable occasion for the two leaders to compare notes face to face and find a way to anchor the still volatile relations between their countries.

The meeting will offer a golden opportunity to recalibrate the trajectory of what is widely perceived as the most important nation-to-nation ties in the world.