Apology made for error in Xi's title by White House staff

The United States has apologized to China for misusing President Xi Jinping's title in a transcript, Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said on Monday.

According to Geng, China protested to the US over the misuse and the US acknowledged it was a technical mistake and had made a correction.

"The US has made an apology to China," he told reporters at a daily news conference in Beijing.