NEW YORK (November 17, 2009)--President Barack Obama will sit down for an interview with the Fox News Channel's Major Garrett, which may signal a thaw in relations between the network and administration.

The White House confirmed Tuesday that Garrett will be included among a round of network interviews that the president is giving Wednesday in Beijing.

Garrett posted news of the interview on Twitter.

Fox and the administration have been in a public fight since former White House communications director Anita Dunn said the network acted like the research or communications arm of the Republican Party.

The president pointedly avoided Fox when he gave a round of interviews to Sunday shows about his health care plan.