And what is with the Boston Globe?
This makes them look bad! Like liars -- or worse!
"Obama gently prods China on human rights; Offers praise for economic growth Says ties are key for both nations" by Andrew Higgins and Anne E. Kornblut, The Washington Post | November 18, 2009
Remember, readers, the Washington Post is the CIA 's newspaper.
So this IS the AGENDA being served up to you!
BEIJING - Describing ties with China as “never more important to our collective future,’’ President Obama yesterday mixed praise for Chinese economic triumphs with gentle prodding on its currency, human rights, and Tibet.
Talks in Beijing with Chinese President Hu Jintao produced pledges of cooperation on climate change, the economy, and even military relations but yielded no breakthroughs on the many global headaches that Washington wants Beijing to help relieve. A stiff joint appearance by Obama and Hu in the Great Hall of the People overlooking Tiananmen Square crystallized the state of the relationship between the two world powers: increasingly important to both countries, but also curiously bereft of warmth or intimacy....
That would have been gross anyway! I don't him a lovey-dovey with anyone like he is with Israel's war criminal leaders. That is the CIA's take, huh?
“I spoke to President Hu about America’s bedrock beliefs that all men and women possess certain fundamental human rights,’’ Obama said. “We do not believe these principles are unique to America, but rather they are universal rights and that they should be available to all peoples, to all ethnic and religious minorities....’’
Blah, blah, blah, said the mass-murdering war-criminal render and torturer!
Later, serenaded by the People’s Liberation Army, Obama attended a state dinner hosted by Hu in his honor last night, the major social event of his eight-day swing through Asia.
He has the nerve to eat while we are starving back here!
The military band played some American tunes, including “We Are the World,’’ “In the Mood’’ and “I Just Called to Say I Love You.’’ Obama, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, US Ambassador Jon Huntsman and the rest of the delegation dined on Chinese-style steak, stir-fried wild rice, roast grouper, and ice cream.
Sounds good. My stomach juices are turning.
But the event did not stretch into the wee hours. Obama was back at his hotel by 8:40 p.m. local time.
I swear, the guy becomes MORE LIKE GEORGE BUSH every day!
In their earlier joint appearance, Obama and Hu each read prepared remarks and stood impassively while the other spoke. At the end of what was billed as a news conference, the two presidents left without taking a single question from reporters, hurrying away from a podium decked with Chinese and American flags. Chinese state-run television carried the joint appearance live, including Obama’s pitch for “universal rights’’ and talks between Beijing and Tibet’s exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama.
Yeah, CIA has to pimp for their man!
The broadcast contrasted with limited Chinese media coverage of Obama’s tightly choreographed town hall-style meeting with Chinese students in Shanghai on Monday. But the official Chinese news coverage that followed yesterday’s Great Hall of the People event focused on one part of Obama’s message: that the United States accepts Tibet as part of China. “Obama says U.S. recognizes Tibet as part of China,’’ read the headline on China’s state-run New China News Agency, ignoring his repeated call for universal human rights....
Yeah, right, the Chinese news media got it wrong! That's REAL FUNNY coming from a paper that LIED US INTO WARS!!!!
After his talks with Hu, Obama took a quick, 35-minute tour of the Forbidden City, the ancient imperial palace in the heart of Beijing.
Like I said, more like you-know-who every day.
Throughout his first trip to China, the president has had to juggle several different and sometimes incompatible goals: coaxing China into providing more help on the international scene, nudging it toward greater openness at home, and assuring ordinary Americans that closer ties with Beijing will help them, not hurt them. A lengthy joint statement released by Obama and Hu yesterday listed areas in which the two countries will work together, from the establishment of a Clean Energy Research Center to intelligence sharing and other steps to help curb terrorism and crime. Hu, who is also head of China’s ruling Communist Party, said China and the United States “share extensive common interests and broad prospects for cooperation on a series of major issues.’’
But there were no dramatic new deals or signs of any progress on vexing issues such as China’s currency, which America and many of China’s other trading partners view as undervalued and thus a big cause of the huge trade deficits that many countries now have with China. Obama’s leverage against China is limited by the fact that Beijing is now America’s biggest creditor and holds Treasury securities worth nearly $800 billion. But Michael Froman, economic adviser on the National Security Council, said “the $800 billion never came up in conversation.’’
It didn't have to; it's the $800-BILLION GORILLA in the room!
Speaking in the Great Hall of the People, Obama paid tribute to China for its economic successes and for what he said was its “critical’’ role in helping pull the world back from the brink after this year’s financial meltdown. But, added Obama, “a growing economy is joined by growing responsibilities.’’
Odd how the CIA paper NEVER MENTIONED IRAN, huh?
--more--"
And then there is the pinnacle of propaganda, the Old Gray Lady herself!!
Seems like they should have known what WaPo was saying; after all, they work for the same people.
"In visit, Obama skirts Chinese political sensitivities; Such deference could signal shift in relationship" by Michael Wines and Sharon LaFraniere, New York Times | November 18, 2009
BEIJING - Whether by White House design or Chinese insistence, President Obama has steered clear of public meetings with Chinese liberals, free press advocates, and even ordinary Chinese during his first visit to China, showing deference to the Chinese leadership’s aversions to such interactions that is unusual for a visiting American president.
Didn't seem to be a problem to the Washington Post.
Obama held a “town hall’’ meeting with students on Monday. But they were carefully vetted and prepped for the event by the government, participants said.
Then WHY DID MY MSM make such a BIG DEAL out of it?
And how come they DO NOT when it was/is Bush or Obama doing the same things!
And the Chinese authorities, wielding a practiced mix of censorship and diplomatic pressure, succeeded in limiting Obama’s exposure to a point where a third of some 40 Beijing university students interviewed yesterday were unaware that he had just met in Shanghai with their colleagues.
Palestine, you *ewish PoS!
Some students who were aware cast him in terms rarely applied to American leaders, such as “rather humble,’’ and “bland.’’ “Is America being capricious because their economic difficulties force them to be nicer to China and other countries, or is this a genuine change?’’ asked Liu Ziqi, 18, a freshman at the University of International Business and Economics. This is no longer the US-China relationship of old, but an encounter between a weakened giant and a comer with a bit of its own swagger.
Yeah, are you RILED UP NOW, 'murkn!!!!
Good thing Bush never SWAGGERED, huh?
Washington’s comparative advantage in past meetings is now diminished, a fact clearly not lost on the Chinese. Human rights is the prime example. In 1998, President Bill Clinton staged a nationally broadcast discussion with the president at the time, Jiang Zemin, about human rights, the Dalai Lama, and perhaps China’s most taboo topic, the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests. In 2002, President George W. Bush stressed liberty, rule of law, and faith in a speech to university students broadcast across China.
When Obama himself visited Moscow in July, he met with opposition political activists and journalists, and publicly questioned the prosecution of an anti-Kremlin businessman. In China, by contrast, Obama’s nuanced references to rights have shied from citing China’s spotty record, even when offered the chance. Asked Monday in Shanghai to discuss China’s censorship of the Internet, the president replied by talking about America’s robust political debates.
Translation: Obama is a WIMP!
So WHY is the New York Times tearing into him?
Is Obama pissing Israel off behind the scenes?
Is that why the economy is s***ting back out and the CIA paper is supporting Obama?
American scholars and activists, who demanded anonymity for fear of damaging relations with the White House, said the administration rejected proposals for brief meetings in Beijing with Chinese political activists, and then with lawyers.
That is SO BUSHIAN!!!
American officials did consider organizing meetings between Obama and Chinese lawyers, university students in Beijing and Hu Shuli, a well-known Chinese journalist who recently ceded control of Caijing, one of the nation’s most respected and independent magazines. But officials say time constraints, not political considerations, sidelined those options, although the sightseeing agenda remained intact.
Look at the NYT reporters take ANOTHER DIG!
What, Obama being to conciliatory to the Chinese for Israeli, 'er, NYT tastes?
One prominent defense lawyer, Mo Shaoping, said yesterday that an American official called this month to ask if he would meet with Obama, but never called back. “The US should be the safeguard of universal values,’’ he said, but Obama “actually didn’t make it a very high priority.’’
But the WaPo said HE DID!!!!!
For its part, the Chinese government made sure Obama did not bump into protesters by placing well-known activists under tighter security. Chinese Human Rights Defenders, a local organization, said 20 people were detained, placed under house arrest, or prohibited from traveling before Obama’s visit.
Yeah, GOOD THING that never happens here in AmeriKa!!!
Not like WE have WATCH LISTS or anything!
Zhang Zuhua, once a Communist Party official and now among China’s most influential civil-rights activists, said additional police officers were watching his apartment and that he had been warned to avoid political activity.
Phew! Thank God I live in AmeriKa where that never happens, and.... what you say?
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Never mind.
Zhang expressed concern over what he called America’s growing reluctance to criticize China on human rights, saying “the Communist Party can pay even less regard to it and tighten up.’’
Like WE HAVE ANY STANDING to CRITICIZE ANYONE!
Wees TORTURES PEOPLES and have KILLED MILLIONS over lies!!!!
But an alternative explanation for Obama’s comparatively low profile here is the very insecurity of China’s autocratic regime.
I'm sorry, but that DOES NOT MAKE SENSE! Autocrats are NEVER INSECURE!
In contrast to Jiang, who sparred openly with Clinton over human rights, Hu is a cautious politician whose tenure has been marked by an obsession with stability.
It is SO SAD to see the CHINESE COMMUNISTS care MORE ABOUT WHAT THEIR PEOPLE THINK than AmeriKa's "democratic leaders" care about ours!
So WHOSE ACCOUNT are you buying (if any), readers, and HOW COME IRAN and NORTH KOREA went UNMENTIONED THIS DAY, huh?
All about Obama and "human rights."
