Bush, Hu Make Little Progress on Trade

[rodeodance]

maybe all those photo ops will make up for it?


http://news.yahoo.com/

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060420/ap_on_go_pr_wh/hu_visit;_ylt=Atf813h0GhZXIAPXjpVS.Wys0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA2Z2szazkxBHNlYwN0bQ--

Bush, Hu Make Little Progress on Trade
AP - 11 minutes ago

WASHINGTON - President Bush and Chinese President Hu Jintao agreed to cooperate more closely on trade and nuclear tensions over Iran and North Korea but failed to break new ground Thursday toward resolving a host of differences. Their meeting was marred by a protest.

[Poll_Blind]

1. What's Chinese for "No deal- We OWN you, bitch"? n/t

PB

[htuttle]

12. Bee-tzway. Wrong wuomun fah-tsai!

閉嘴。容我們發財。・闭嘴。容我们发财。

(roughly translates as "Shut up and make us wealthy!")

"Dong-ma?"

[Poll_Blind]

15. LOL! n/t

PB

[madeline_con]

2. "Their meeting was marred by a protest."

Imagine that!

[rodeodance]

3. identified the protester as Dr. Wang Wenyi,

....Stephen Gregory, a spokesman for the Falun Gong-affiliated newspaper The Epoch Times, later identified the protester as Dr. Wang Wenyi, a patholgist and Falun Gong practitioner based in New York. She had received a press credential through the newspaper, Gregory said.

"We expected her to act as a reporter; we didn't expect her to protest. None of us had any idea that Dr. Wang was planning this," he said.

Hu arrived in Washington Wednesday night for the first time as China's leader, after two days spent wooing American business leaders in Washington state.

In formal remarks on the South Lawn, Bush spoke more forcefully on the currency issue, saying he would continue to press for China to move "toward a flexible market exchange."

[Oversea Visitor]

4. After grabbing HU

I say watch out for 20 steps backward.

[Virginia Dare]

5. Another day, another failure.....

such is the life of George W. Bush.

[chaumont58]

6. Jesus Christ! Chimpie has no cards.

If somehow the US were to stop all trade with China, every WalMart in this country would have to close its doors. And, if China stopped buying US Treasury notes, the US government would have to close its doors.

[Atman]

7. Couldn't we TRADE Bush?

China must have something we can use? Bush has to be worth a container full of Moo Shoo pork or something.

[dipsydoodle]

8. Plate of noodles

would be too much.

[dipsydoodle]

9. Strikes me this the pot calling the kettle black

It's ok for the multi's to use sweatshop labor in Indonesia to make huge bundles of profit on goods sold in the west but not for the Chinese to make and sell ripoffs via corp. US businesses.

[raccoon]

10. Ramen! nt

[Bridget Burke]

11. Hu's Moo Shoo Pork?

Much like Wu's Moo Shoo Pork--using the original Deadwood recipe.

[Az_lefty]

13. ha ha,,,poor george, he just can't get anything right.

[xultar]

14. What with all the pomp-n-bullshit I'm sure they were tired.

[truthisfreedom]

16. *yawn*

[gratuitous]

17. On the plus side, W. ran through all of his "knock knock" jokes

Or he would have, except he kept cracking up every time he said "Knock knock" and the Chinese president said "Who's there?" The leader of the free world could only gasp between guffaws, "You certainly are!"

What a jokester that Bush is.

[bluedog]

18. yahoo didn't tell whole story........ protocol gaffe

BBC:

Earlier, in a protocol gaffe, when China's national anthem was announced, it was referred to as the anthem of the Republic of China - the formal name of Taiwan. China's formal name is the People's Republic of China.


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4925704.stm


yahoo

The two leaders stood side by side under bright sunshine on the South Lawn of the White House as the national anthems of both countries were played by a military band.

[gizmo1979]

19. What a crock of shit.

Big cowboy Bush shoots blanks at Hu.

[sam sarrha]

20. Hu's on 3rd....??