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...turn for the better as Lyndon Johnson and the Soviet leader met days after the Six-Day War and the defection of Joseph Stalin's daughter to the U.S caused outrage in Moscow. In Iceland in 1986, Gorbachev and Reagan met and almost banned nuclear weapons. When Chinese President Hu Jintao came to the White House on Thursday, the visit lasted five hours including lunch...
...without any real progress on these issues, Hu's first visit to the White House was marked more by visuals than anything else. There was the well-choreographed arrival on the South Lawn, which was upset by a "journalist" for a newspaper run by the Falun Gong, who protested China's crackdown on the religious sect. "Of course we knew she was with a Falun Gong paper," said a senior Administration official trying to explain the snafu. "But if we'd kept her out, the world would have screamed that we were guilty of censorship." So her cries came...
...rare move at events like these, Bush and Hu decided to sit next to each other at lunch, instead of a few seats apart, so they could continue working. Over wild-caught Alaskan halibut with mushroom essence they continued their discussions on everything from trade and human rights to North Korean and Iranian nuclear ambitions. No big progress on any of those fronts. Still, the two pledged closer cooperation and the atmospherics were cordial, if not friendly. The two men had met five times previously and have a good working relationship, and Administration officials portrayed the improvement in relations between...
...Whatever did get accomplished got wrapped up quickly. Hu left right after lunch and the entertainment provided by a bluegrass band. As throngs of protesters decried China's human rights record, Hu's motorcade sped off. For his part, President Bush had plenty of time in the afternoon to hand out the Presidential Environmental Youth Awards...
...Whether Bush?s arguments persuade Hu probably won?t be apparent until early May, when the U.N. Security Council is expected to convene on the Iran issue. At that time, diplomats from the U.S. and like-minded European nations plan to push a tough resolution demanding that Iran abandon its nuclear ambitions or face sanctions. U.S. officials aren?t counting on the votes of China and Russia, but if the pair merely abstains rather than exercises its vetoes, the resolution is likely to pass...