"Obama visit highlights new US-China relations" by Helene Cooper, Michael Wines and David E. Sanger, New York Times | November 15, 2009
When President Obama visits China for the first time today, he will, in many ways, be assuming the role of profligate spender coming to pay his respects to his banker.
That stark fact - China is the largest foreign lender to the United States - has changed the core of the relationship between the United States and the only country with a reasonable chance of challenging its status as the world’s sole superpower....
Two paragraphs in and the Times' wants to start a war.
In a July meeting, Chinese officials asked their American counterparts detailed questions about the health care legislation making its way through Congress. The president’s budget director, Peter R. Orszag, answered most of their questions. But the Chinese were not particularly interested in the public option or universal care for all Americans. “They wanted to know, in painstaking detail, how the health care plan would affect the deficit,’’ one participant in the conversation recalled.
Chinese officials expect that they will help finance whatever Congress and the White House settle on, mostly through buying Treasury debt, and like any banker, they wanted evidence that the United States had a plan to pay them back.
So sure the Chinese are going to continue funding a loser, because word in the blogosphere is they are slowly dumping dollars (part of the reason the dollar is dying).
Hey, when it comes to deception and self-delusion, the NYT is queen!
It is a long way from the days when President George W. Bush hectored China about currency manipulation, or when President Clinton exhorted the Chinese to improve human rights. Obama has struck a mollifying note with China....
As if BUSH the MASS-MURDERING, WAR-CRIMINAL DRUNKARD had any standing on human rights.
And China hasn't struck me as angry. They get annoyed when the U.S. pot hollers kettle, and are justifiably upset about U.S. interference in China's internal affairs, but they don't seem angry to me, MSM.
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(Sigh of sadness)
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White House officials have been working for months to make sure that Obama’s three-day visit to Shanghai and Beijing conveys a conciliatory image.
The REALITY may be different, but the IMAGE is EVERYTHING!
For instance, in June, the White House told the Dalai Lama that while Obama would meet him at some point, he would not do so in October, when the Tibetan spiritual leader visited Washington, because it was too close to Obama’s visit to China. Greeting the Dalai Lama, whom China condemns as a separatist, weeks before Obama’s first presidential trip to the country could have alienated Beijing, administration officials said. Every president since George H.W. Bush in 1991 has met the Dalai Lama when he visited Washington, usually in private encounters at the White House, although in 2007 George W. Bush became the first president to welcome him publicly, bestowing the Congressional Gold Medal on him at the Capitol. As a senator, Obama met the Dalai Lama.
Gee, look at all the print the CIA asset got, hmmm?
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Yeah, Obama may not have offended, but the MSM still will:
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Same Old, Same Old in Saudi Arabia
I thought it was supposed to be a "newspaper."
So WHY did I NOT SEE ONE WORD of the SNOW in CHINA, Glob?
Censored Photo:
"DEADLY STORMS BLANKET CHINA -- Soldiers of the militia, a civilian reserve force under China's military, shoveled snow on a road in Taiyuan, Shanxi Province. Unusually early snowstorms in north-central China have killed 40 people, caused thousands of buildings to collapse, and destroyed almost 500,000 acres of crops, the Civil Affairs Ministry said yesterday. Nineteen of the deaths resulted from traffic accidents related to the storms, which began Nov. 9 (Boston Globe November 14 2009)."
Related:
Heavy snow storms in northern China kill 40
7,000 buildings collapse in China under heaviest snow on record
How many other things is the Boston Globe web site concealing?
See it mentioned here at all?
"Obama must maintain a delicate balance in China; Human rights concerns may be raised in private" by Jennifer Loven, Associated Press | November 16, 2009
SHANGHAI - President Obama is walking a tightrope on his first trip to China, seeking to enlist help in tackling urgent global problems while weighing when and how - or whether - he should raise traditional human rights concerns.
MSM is just going to keep driving that agenda home despite AmeriKan hypocrisy, 'eh? You know, it is ALMOST AS IF they WANT to DIVIDE PEOPLE and START MORE WARS, isn't it?
But then again, I know my lying, agenda-pushing, enemy-creating, war-promoting, Zionist AmeriKan MSM would never lie to me about such things (add appropriate level of sarcasm for your tastes here, readers).
Obama arrived in Shanghai late last night, in a driving rain, hustling through a phalanx of umbrella-holding dignitaries to reach his limousine. Today, the president will hold talks with local politicians and conduct an American-style town hall discussion with Chinese university students....
I guess that's as close as we get to snow, 'eh?
China is a huge and lucrative market for American goods and services, and yet it has a giant trade surplus with the United States that, like a raft of other economic issues, is a bone of contention between the two governments.
Yeah, all the factories -- and the jobs that go with them -- went there with US government assistance, but....
The two militaries have increased their contacts, but clashes still happen and the United States remains worried about a dramatic buildup in what is already the largest standing army in the world.
You have to WONDER HOW the REST of the WORLD VIEWS our WORLDWIDE WAR MACHINE through the BIASED, ONE-SIDED, AmeriKan MSM prism, readers.
Amid all that, Obama has adopted a pragmatic approach that stresses the positive, sometimes earning him criticism that he is being too soft on Beijing, particularly in the area of human rights abuses and what the United States regards as an undervalued Chinese currency that disadvantages US products. Obama recognizes that a rising China, as the world’s third-largest economy on the way to becoming the second and the largest foreign holder of US debt, has shifted the dynamic more toward one of equals. For instance, Chinese questions about how Washington spending policies will affect the already soaring US deficit and the safety of Chinese investments now must be answered by Washington....
So BEFORE we could BLOW THEM OFF, huh? Sort of an INSULT, don'cha think?
Aides said in advance that Obama would raise several human rights issues privately with Chinese leaders, including President Hu Jintao. But it was unlikely that he would repeat those messages too stridently in public, out of concern for angering his hosts.
GOOD! It is called BEING a POLITE GUEST!
Even before arriving in China, for example, he declined to get specific about human rights concerns with China in his Tokyo speech and eschewed the traditional presidential meeting with the Dalai Lama while he was in Washington in June. Obama said he would see the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader later, a decision welcomed by Chinese officials who pressure foreign governments not to meet with the Dalai Lama and spurn Tibetans’ desires for autonomy from Chinese rule.
Yeah, yeah, that CIA spook gets waved around more than the dead guy!
Obama was to travel from Shanghai to Beijing for the pomp and substance of a two-day state visit hosted by Hu. The president will visit the Forbidden City, home of former emperors in Beijing, and the centuries-old Great Wall outside the capital. Before leaving Shanghai, the president was scheduled to meet with Chinese university students, which the White House hoped would allow him to telegraph US values - through its successes and failures - to the widest Chinese audience possible.
Like what, MASS-MURDERING AGGRESSION and TORTURE?
The particulars of the town hall, including whether it could even be called one, were the subject of delicate negotiations between the White House and the Chinese up to the last minute.
Another staged, selected, and scripted effort like they all are here?
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And the TRUE PURPOSE of all this PRESS!
"The whirlwind of summitry is part of Obama’s first presidential trip to the region. Its emphasis on big issues like climate change, disarmament, and the economic crisis is part of Obama’s approach to persuade new emerging powers like China to share in the burden of managing global challenges....
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So when does the bombing of Iran begin?
