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...Staff writer Melody Y. Hu can be reached at melodyhu@fas.harvard.edu...
...Staff writer Melody Y. Hu can be reached at melodyhu@fas.harvard.edu...
...even more sensitive case turned up in July. Namibian prosecutors are charging representatives connected to a Chinese state-owned manufacturer of security scanners with bribing local officials to win a $55 million contract in 2008. Until last year, the head of the company, Nuctech, was none other than Hu Haifeng, the son of China's President Hu Jintao. Although the younger Hu has not been publicly implicated in the case, Chinese censors quickly squelched news stories on the bust within China. (Separately, E.U. officials are also investigating whether Nuctech engaged in illegal activity in Europe...
President Barack Obama's tour of china was an exercise in awkwardness, micromanaged and tightly controlled by a host intolerant of spontaneity. His meeting with Chinese counterpart Hu Jintao was, to put it kindly, stilted. Flash forward a week to the lawns of the White House and the difference couldn't be more palpable. India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, the guest of honor at the first-ever official state dinner in the Obama era, was feted in an atmosphere of easy conviviality, surrounded by a bubbly cast of celebrities and power brokers who toasted the bonds between the world...
...Staff writer Melody Y. Hu can be reached at melodyhu@fas.harvard.edu...