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President Bush, sitting chair by chair with President Hu Jintao of China on Tuesday before a United Nations summit in Manhattan, broke the silence as aides herded out the last of the journalists who had been brought in to record the leaders' pre-meeting pleasantries. Bush and Hu were in a cramped Waldorf Astoria suite that was blazing with studio lighting installed by the White House. "All right!" Bush told the translators and underlings with a sly smile. "Now we can get some oxygen in this room...
...APPROVED. Plans to honor former Chinese Communist Party leader HU YAOBANG at Beijing's Great Hall of the People; by President Hu Jintao; in Beijing. The celebration of the 90th anniversary of the late leader's birth will end more than a decade of official silence about his legacy. His April 1989 death sparked pro-democracy demonstrations in Tiananmen Square that were crushed in the massacre seven weeks later...
...Chinese President Hu Jintao's meeting with George W. Bush this week in New York, on the sidelines of the United Nations' 60th anniversary celebration, continues the series of encounters between top American and Chinese leaders that started in 1972. With each meeting, the drama and historical import has diminished. That's a positive thing, a sign of how profoundly the U.S.-China relationship has deepened in three decades. When Deng Xiaoping met Jimmy Carter in the White House in 1979?memorable quote: "Has your Congress passed a law that I cannot smoke?"?the bamboo curtain had just been prized...
China is under no obligation to allow foreign broadcasters to operate, and by tightening regulations across the board, President Hu Jintao has shown his wariness about opening China's living rooms to Western culture. Multinational media companies are salivating over the $3.4 billion in TV advertising carried on networks in China last year, only 6% of which went to foreign firms, according to Vivek Couto, a Hong Kong--based media consultant. But government restrictions limit some News Corp. channels to the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou, luxury hotels, top government offices and approved apartment buildings. (Time Warner, owner of TIME...
...made because the dollar had become too volatile, so it was in China's own long-term interest to change. Whatever the reasons, the decision is expected to smooth strained relations between China and the U.S.?good timing, given that a meeting in Washington between Chinese President Hu Jintao and U.S. President George W. Bush is scheduled for September...