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WASHINGTON: The Obama White House on Wednesday rolled out the red carpet for Chinese President Hu Jintao months after the US President met Tibetan leader Dalai Lama sans fanfare and photo-ops and showed him out through a side door past garbage bags. The contrasting receptions, recalled vividly by commentators, pretty much summed up the US approach and priorities at a time when China struts the world stage like an economic colossus with military ambitions to match. It would be a stretch to say China owns the US, but it is no great secret that President Hu is being courted, coddled...

Why Biden thinks the Chinese Communists are “not bad folks” and “not competition for us.” “Biden Gets China,” headlined the January 2, 2012 report in The Atlantic. As author Steve Clemons explained, “Vice President Joe Biden will take the lead on the administrations next phase China policy.” This marked a shift to a “strategy of engagement with Biden at the top,” that allows the US to deal with China’s likely next president from a Vice President to a Vice President/Next President status -- and to continue both the Departments of State’s and Treasury’s ongoing engagement with other designated key Chinese...

Tony Bobulinski will attend Thursday night's debate as guest of President Trump.

WASHINGTON - US Vice President Joe Biden said on Wednesday that the US-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue (S&ED) is essential to both countries. Biden made the remarks during the opening session of the two countries' fifth round of the annual talks, noting relationship will work "only if leaders and citizens approach it with sense of vision and spirit of maturity." "We will have our disagreements. We have them now," said Biden. "But if we are straight forward, clear, and predictable with one other, we can find solutions that work for both of us."