19 April 2006

Communist Chief Meets the World's Richest Man



It is telling that the Chinese president, Hu Jintao, started his tour of the United States by visiting Bill Gates and not George W. Bush. Sure, this is not billed as an official state visit (and thus Hu won't get the traditional 21-gun salute). But we can still read much into this visit. Political relations between the US and the PRC have not been good. And, for the foreseeable future, the business of China is BUSINESS.

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