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Obama says world urgently watching US-China talks (Uhh.. Spew- uhh.. Alert)
AP on Yahoo ^ | 11/16/09 | Jennifer Loven - ap

Posted on 11/16/2009 3:26:59 PM PST by NormsRevenge

BEIJING – President Barack Obama declared Monday the world is urgently watching for a "meeting of the minds" between the U.S. and China as he meets with President Hu Jintao on the globe's biggest issues — climate change, economic recession, nuclear proliferation and more.

Obama also prodded China about Internet controls and free speech, but his message was not widely heard in the country because his words were drastically limited online and shown on just one regional television channel.

In his first visit here, Obama is strongly suggesting that China, now a giant in economic impact as well as territory, must take a bigger role on the world stage — part of "burden of leadership" it shares with the United States.

"I will tell you, other countries around the world will be waiting for us," Obama said in an American-style town-hall discussion with Chinese university students in Shanghai, where he spent a day before flying to China's capital for a state visit with President Hu.

The town hall meeting showed how difficult it is for the governments to work together. The U.S. initially requested a larger venue and a live broadcast on a major network. In the end, Chinese officials put the event on the eastern fringes of the city. Only local Shanghai TV carried it live, though it was streamed on two popular Internet portals and on the White House's Web site, which is not censored.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: china; obama; urgently; watching
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If so much was not at stake, maybe one could forgive the 'bush league' journeys we will have to endure for HOPEfully no more tha 4 years.

btw, don't you first have to have a mind?

1 posted on 11/16/2009 3:27:00 PM PST by NormsRevenge
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Pres__ent of the uhhh.. Universe

God help us All.


2 posted on 11/16/2009 3:29:15 PM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard .. May yur bandwidth exceed your girth)
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To: NormsRevenge

This guy is beginning to make people like Chavez, Qaddafi,Achadinejad look sane.


3 posted on 11/16/2009 3:30:05 PM PST by dr_who
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Oh, Cool! All of this is for me?

I'll have to travel more.

uhh, those guns aren't loaded, are they?

President Barack Obama steps off Air Force One upon his arrival in Beijing, November 16, 2009. REUTERS/Jason Lee


4 posted on 11/16/2009 3:31:12 PM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard .. May yur bandwidth exceed your girth)
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US President Barack Obama, seen here at a a town hall meeting in Shanghai, has arrived in Beijing from Shanghai, for the second leg of his maiden state visit to China (AFP/Mandel Ngan)


5 posted on 11/16/2009 3:32:36 PM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard .. May yur bandwidth exceed your girth)
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To: NormsRevenge

“a meeting of the minds”

We seem to be spotting them one...


6 posted on 11/16/2009 3:34:06 PM PST by jessduntno (TOTUS fails and POtuS becomes a phuttering stuck.)
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Why Yes. I do know Bill Clinton.

US President Barack Obama (R) greets guests after a town hall meeting with future Chinese leaders at the Museum of Science and Technology in Shanghai, China. The number of foreigners enrolled at US universities shot to a record high in the last academic year fueled by an influx of Chinese students, an educators' group said Monday. (AFP/File/Saul Loeb)


7 posted on 11/16/2009 3:34:29 PM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard .. May yur bandwidth exceed your girth)
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Obama says world urgently watching US-China talks

Waiting to see how Obama will make himself look the fool and embarrass the U.S. even more. ;-)

8 posted on 11/16/2009 3:35:45 PM PST by doc1019 (Obama, not so much.)
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To: NormsRevenge
Obama also prodded China about Internet controls and free speech, but his message was not widely heard in the country because his words were drastically limited online and shown on just one regional television channel.

Fox News has a division in China?

9 posted on 11/16/2009 3:36:49 PM PST by Cementjungle
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Will he spend a moment paying his respect to those who died at Tiananmen Square and since?

A U.S. flag is seen in front of Tiananmen Gate in Beijing November 16, 2009. U.S. President Barack Obama faces tensions with China over trade and Tibet on his first visit to the emerging superpower for a summit that will grapple with economic imbalances and the future of the yuan. REUTERS/Grace Liang (CHINA POLITICS)


10 posted on 11/16/2009 3:38:18 PM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard .. May yur bandwidth exceed your girth)
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I wonder if Zero sees their faces and smiles as signs of their acknowledgement that he is all they need.

Meanwhile of course they laugh at him behind his back.


11 posted on 11/16/2009 3:39:13 PM PST by Niuhuru (The Internet is the digital AIDS; adapting and successfully destroying the MSM host.)
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To: doc1019
He still has another stop to go for the trifecta. ;-)

Graphic showing US President Barack Obama's schedule for his tour of Asia starting in Japan. Obama embarked on his first tour of Asia as US president, bound for Japan before later stops in Singapore, China and South Korea on his week-long trip. (AFP Graphic)


12 posted on 11/16/2009 3:41:35 PM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard .. May yur bandwidth exceed your girth)
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To: NormsRevenge

He’s not African-American. He’s just so full of sh*t he’s light brown.


13 posted on 11/16/2009 3:55:37 PM PST by Hoosier-Daddy ("It does no good to be a super power if you have to worry what the neighbors think." BuffaloJack)
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To: doc1019
Waiting to see how Obama will make himself look the fool and embarrass the U.S. even more. ;-)

He does that every minute.

14 posted on 11/16/2009 4:01:22 PM PST by Big Horn (Rebuild the GOP to a conservative party)
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To: NormsRevenge

Problem is....as long as so many support Free Trade with Communist China....the Communist Chinese will continue their Communist ways. Even a fellow Commie like Obama will not make much of an impact.

Free Trade with Communist China just subsidizes the Communist Party there.


15 posted on 11/16/2009 4:08:13 PM PST by UCFRoadWarrior (The Return of America)
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To: Big Horn
Waiting to see how Obama will make himself look the fool and embarrass the U.S. even more. ;-)

Here you go

This picture was NOT photoshopped!

16 posted on 11/16/2009 4:11:53 PM PST by P-Marlowe (LPFOKETT GAHCOEEP-w/o*)
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US President Barack Obama's first visit to China will undoubtedly be marked by difficult talks on trade and climate change, but another thorny issue has emerged: how to write "Obama" in Mandarin. (AFP/Mandel Ngan)


17 posted on 11/16/2009 4:18:10 PM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard .. May yur bandwidth exceed your girth)
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"I Love Obama'" poster is seen in Obama city, western Japan. The ancient fishing town of 30,000, about 400 kilometres (250 miles) from Tokyo, has long supported its White House namesake, and some of its residents even went to Tokyo to steal a glimpse of the president. (AFP/File/Toru Yamanaka)


18 posted on 11/16/2009 4:19:47 PM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard .. May yur bandwidth exceed your girth)
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To: NormsRevenge
how do you Urgently watch something??? the boy has no understanding of the english language...

Main Entry: ur·gent

Pronunciation: \ˈər-jənt\
Function: adjective
Etymology: Middle English, from Middle French, from Latin urgent-, urgens, present participle of urgēre
Date: 15th century

1 a : calling for immediate attention : pressing <urgent appeals> <an urgent need> b : conveying a sense of urgency
2 : urging insistently : importunate

ur·gent·ly adverb

19 posted on 11/16/2009 4:30:31 PM PST by Chode (American Hedonist *DTOM* -ww- I AM JIM THOMPSON!)
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To: NormsRevenge

The word narcissistic comes to mind.


20 posted on 11/16/2009 4:44:59 PM PST by oiler (Reagan Republicans Unite!!!!! It's the Constitution Stupid. Palin and Bachmann in 2012)
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