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...between a festive 21-gun salute on the South Lawn and a well-choreographed working lunch for 200, complete with Nashville bluegrass band, President Bush plans to sit down with Chinese president Hu Jintao in the Oval Office to discuss international security issues. Topic A, White House aides say, will be Iran...
...result of this bickering, says Pei, Bush and Hu will now have only an hour and a half to cover all the issues troubling relations between the two countries - from trade conflicts to Taiwan, from human-rights abuses to the rampant piracy of U.S. goods. "With half the time taken up by translators," adds Pei, "how much of substance can they cram in? These guys are going to be breathless from racing through their talking points...
...Beijing, of course, is hardly averse to making pointed displays of China's burgeoning wealth and power. Last week, in advance of Hu's visit, a 200-strong Chinese delegation led by Vice Premier Wu Yi toured the U.S., signing no less than $16 billion in contracts with American behemoths like Microsoft and Boeing. But the extent of the change in China's sense of itself is equally evident among ordinary folk. A few blocks from Shanghai's Bund, a huge American flag dominates the entrance to an outlet selling the 100%-polyester products of the Shanghai Flag and Tent...
...Even among widely traveled Chinese, it's still hard to find someone who believes that the bombing was anything but deliberate. Take Hu Xijin, a former foreign correspondent who is now editor of the Global Times, a feisty offshoot of the People's Daily. Hu boasts that the rising circulation of his international affairs-oriented paper demonstrates changing Chinese attitudes to the outside world, especially America: "Chinese people are much more realistic about the United States, and that means their reactions are less extreme." But ask Hu about the Belgrade incident and his genial demeanor vanishes. Hu says he doesn...
...Zhang's words suggest that the endlessly mutating relationship between China and the U.S. has entered a new phase - one in which the balance of power has subtly but significantly shifted. The reverberations of that shift will be felt not only during Hu's trip to Washington, but for decades to come...