US President Barack Obama will embark on his last Asia trip later this week which would focus on key issues of climate change, global economy and those concerning Asia Pacific region, a top offiical has said.

Obama will leave for a week-long trip to Asia — his 10th to the Asia Pacific region — that would take him to China and laos. He would be the first US president to visit laos.

In China, Obama would be attending the G-20 Summit, scheduled for September 4, which among others would be attended by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Obama and Modi are likely to meet on the sidelines of the G-20 Summit, but no announcement has been made yet. Obama would meet his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping on September 3. “We’ll be reviewing all of the issues that have been front and centre in the US-China relationship for the last seven and a half years.

“On the positive side, we’ll be able to review the progress we’ve made on the global economy, on climate change, our shared efforts to prevent the proliferation of nuclear weapons through the Iran deal, our shared concern about the situation on the Korean Peninsula,” said Ben Rhodes, the Deputy National Security Advisor. They would also be addressing differences, in the area of cyber, some of the economic practices, tensions around maritime issues in the South China Sea and, differences on human rights as well.

“But, again, I think this is going to be the last occasion of this sort for the President to spend several hours with his Chinese counterpart and to review the state of US- China relations and to try to see where we can make progress, and working together on areas of common interest or bridging some of the differences that have been characteristic of the relationship,” he said.