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Obama, Hu toast 'strategic mutual trust' at state dinnerBy Christina Wilkie - 01/19/11 10:30 PM ET President Obama and Chinese President Hu Jintao toasted U.S. and Chinese collaboration and mutual interests on Wednesday night at a festive state dinner for 225 guests at the White House. Their toasts marked the high point of an evening notable for its strict adherence to the protocol and symbolism valued in Chinese culture, but which, at the same time, managed to fulfill the Chinese delegation's request for a thoroughly American dinner party. Guests dined on a meal of pear salad, lobster, ribeye steak and...

Wonder if the Freepers in Raleigh will make sure he gets a warm welcome. Wonder if he will play "My Motherland" for his southern fans.

Help needed in passing urgent message to Rush Limbaugh! He said he couldn't sing along with Lang-Lang piano anti American performance at the White House State Dinner because he would be blasted for singing in Chinese. Please TELL RUSH (and Paul Shanklin!)that the White House Microphone picked up the President singing along in English! Not only did he know the words to the tune played by Lang-Lang, He took great pleasure in singing "we will fight the American jackals" and destroy them with our weapons! I only hope Paul Shanklin knows the words of the tune so he can fill...

After a number of conservatives criticized the White House for sitting idly by while Chinese pianist Lang Lang tickled the ivories with an anti-American ballad at last week’s State Dinner for President Hu Jintao, the White House responded Monday condemning the criticism and insisting the song, “My Motherland,” was no insult to the United States. As we reported Sunday, the pianist claims to have chosen the song because “playing the tune at the White House banquet can help us, as Chinese people, feel extremely proud of ourselves and express our feelings through the song.” The song was written for the...

Hmmm. I wonder if any Freepers will show up and appear on stage with a "Keep Taiwan Free" sign. This is the guy that played the "kill the americans" theme song at the white house.

So that lavish state dinner President Obama hosted for Chinese President Hu Jintao last week? Turns out it was an even worse decision than previously thought. Not only did Obama honor a regime of human-rights abusers, but it turns out they weren’t even appreciative. According to the Epoch Times, a pianist at the event played a well-known Chinese propaganda song that’s about defeating the U.S. in a war. And it sounds like the Chinese government may have known the song would be played beforehand: "Lang Lang the pianist says he chose it. Chairman Hu Jintao recognized it as soon as...