WASHINGTON, April 6 (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will raise the issue of the Chinese currency when he meets with Chinese President Hu Jintao in Washington next week, the White House said on Tuesday.
"Whenever we get together with China, discussions about energy will be on the table, discussions about the global economic recovery, and certainly discussions about what the president has talked about in terms of the market-based currency," White House press secretary Robert Gibbs told a news briefing.
Hu will meet Obama on the sidelines of a nuclear security summit in Washington. Gibbs said that this was tentatively scheduled for Monday morning and that they would also discuss nuclear proliferation.
(Reporting by Alister Bull, editing by Patricia Zengerle)