US President Barack Obama will meet China's President Hu Jintao on the sidelines of the Group of Eight summit in Italy next week, a senior White House official said on Wednesday.
The US leader will hold a bilateral meeting with Hu at the talks, at which China will be present as a member of the G8 plus Five grouping of developed and developing economies, Obama advisor Denis McDonough told reporters.
Obama and Hu met for the first time since the US president took office in London, on April 1, ahead of the G20 economic crisis summit.
