"USA elect this idiot ?"
Posted on 08/22/2009 12:56:22 PM PDT by Steelfish
AUGUST 22, 2009
Obama to Visit China in November
Associated Press
BEIJING -- President Barack Obama will visit China for the first time in November, the new U.S. ambassador said Saturday, a day after he arrived in the country.
Ambassador Jon Huntsman gave no specific dates, but Obama is scheduled to attend the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum in Singapore on Nov. 14-15.
Huntsman, a former Republican governor of Utah and ambassador to Singapore, said the visit would be part of a boost in contacts with China as the countries grow increasingly interdependent.
"I am hopeful, confident, that by the end of the year the U.S.-China relationship will be better than ever before," Huntsman told reporters at his residence.
Huntsman delivered some of his comments in fluent Mandarin Chinese from his days as a Mormon missionary in Taiwan.
He was tapped by Obama to serve as ambassador in May. His nomination was confirmed Aug. 7 by the U.S. Senate and he was sworn in Aug. 11.
As ambassador, he faces challenges ranging from managing economic friction over China's massive trade surplus with the U.S. to Chinese objections to U.S. arms sales to Taiwan, the self-governing island that Beijing claims as its own territory.
On Thursday, the chief of the General Staff of China's People's Liberation Army, Chen Bingde, told visiting U.S. Army Chief of Staff Gen. George Casey that Taiwan arms sales damaged China's "core national interests" and undermined cooperation between the U.S. and Chinese militaries.
A series of confrontations involving vessels from the two navies has also raised concerns over China's rising determination to defend what it sees as its territorial interests in the South China Sea, where the U.S. has long operated as the major international power.
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Oh, how embarrassing he is.
Will they please keep him.
I hope he’s got a few more overseas trips planned in the months to come. We’re a lot better off when he’s out of the country.
ya beat me to it.
Let's pray
"USA elect this idiot ?"
Does he have to apologize to them for something? Maybe he’s gonna give them a speech....I bet they’d be really excited! /s.
With all the money China has in our T bills and bonds, we had better get used to the president kowtowing to the Chinese.
I hope that Obama is bringing a big begging bowl befitting the world's largest debtor nation.
Will there be any place left for him to go in the next three years? Next thing we know he’ll be visiting Antarctica and the Gallapagos.
ANOTHER vacation???? Geeze, timed right during the school break.
• be servile: to behave in an extremely submissive way in order to please somebody in a position of authorityWe'll see if he gives us the definitive image to go with it...
• kneel to show respect: formerly, in China, to kneel and touch the forehead to the ground in order to show respect, awe, or submission
• servile act: an extremely submissive act aimed at pleasing somebody in a position of authority
He needs to check in with his masters...
And we thought his bowing and scraping in front of King Abdullah was bad?
Look for our dear leader to pull his forelock and prostrate himself in front of our Chinese paymasters.
Post-Presidential real estate hunt?
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