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February 15th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
“We should address each other’s economic and trade concerns through dialogue
and consultation, not protectionism, and uphold the mutually beneficial
pattern of China-US economic relations and trade.”
The remarks came hours after the US secretary of state Hillary Clinton had a “frank
and in-depth” exchange of views with China’s top diplomat Dai Bingguo,
who described the on-going violence as “essentially Syria’s internal
affair.”
The Chinese vice-president was also greeted by calls from a cross-party group
of American former national security officials who issued an open letter
urging China to cut its oil imports from Iran in support of international
sanctions against Tehran.
Mr Xi’s visit to Washington is intended as an exercise in “relationship-building”,
introducing the future Chinese leader to the American people, and follows in
the footsteps of similar visits to the US made by other coming Chinese
leaders prior to their taking power.
The diplomatic choreography will aim to present the new Chinese leader as a
more sympathetic character than China’s current president, the
expressionless Hu Jintao, with Mr Xi offering that he is fond of NBA
Basketball, Hollywood films and has great admiration for “the
hospitable and industrious American people”.
Greeting his counterpart, Vice President Joe Biden, Mr Xi promised “an
in-depth and candid exchange of views”, urging that the US-China
relationship be based on “mutual respect”.
“I hope to engage with a broad cross-section of the American people,”
he added.
Despite the niceties, the Obama administration has taken an increasingly tough
line with China on trade and security issues after a softer start in 2009.
Last year, the president announced a “strategic pivot” to the
Pacific to counter China’s increasingly aggressive posturing in the South
China Sea.
Mr Obama’s remarks on trade referred to the thorny issue of China’s
undervalued currency, with the perceived unfairness of China’s trade
policies the subject of increasingly strident election campaign rhetoric.
The Republican candidates have all promised a tougher line with China, with
Mitt Romney, the front-runner promising to name China as a ‘currency
manipulator’ on his first day in office and confronting Beijing’s military
rise head-on.
“We need to take a stronger stand than we’ve been doing and be prepared
for the fact that the Chinese aren’t going to like it and are going to
complain about it,” Aaron Friedberg, a China adviser on Mr Romney’s
foreign policy and national security advisory team told The Telegraph.
The sense China is more of economic threat than an opportunity had dented US
public attitudes to China over the past year, with strongly unfavorable
views about China outnumbering strongly favorable ones by about 3 to 1,
according to a new Washington Post/ABC News poll.
China’s worsening human rights record, including a crackdown in Tibet and a
wave of arrests against dissidents following the Arab Spring uprisings, has
also served to highlight the ideological political differences between
Washington and Beijing.
As the leaders met inside, outside the White House a group of several hundred
demonstrators waved Tibetan and American flags and chanted “Wake up
USA! Wake up Mr Obama!”. Others carried placards and pictures of the
artist Ai Weiwei who was detained for 81 days last year.
“Xi Jinping is the next leader of the Chinese Communist Party and we need
Barack Obama to be our voice and carry out message of human values. It is
his job and his duty,” said Khenrab Palden, the general secretary of
the Regional Tibetan Youth Congress.
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