In first visit to China, Obama walks a tightrope

Good luck to "Baby Boy Barack Obama" !

What tightrope,China glass is full,with 8 trillions.

I thought he was joining in at the circus. Very disappointed by tired cliche.

I can't tell if the ObaMao tshirts selling all over China are mocking or praising Barack. Can anyone help me out?

Everybody wants new jobs, but it's China who has taken most of them from the US. If you don't talk trade imbalances you can't honestly want them. <:-)

"When President Obama visits China for the first time on Sunday, he will, in many ways, be assuming the role of profligate spender coming to pay his respects to his banker."

"That stark fact — China is the largest foreign lender to the United States — has changed the core of the relationship between the United States and the only country with a reasonable chance of challenging its status as the world’s sole superpower."

"The result: unlike his immediate predecessors, who publicly pushed and prodded China to follow the Western model and become more open politically and economically, Mr. Obama will be spending less time exhorting Beijing and more time reassuring it."

"In a July meeting, Chinese officials asked their American counterparts detailed questions about the health care legislation making its way through Congress. The president’s budget director, Peter R. Orszag, answered most of their questions. But the Chinese were not particularly interested in the public option or universal care for all Americans."

“They wanted to know, in painstaking detail, how the health care plan would affect the deficit,” one participant in the conversation recalled. Chinese officials expect that they will help finance whatever Congress and the White House settle on, mostly through buying Treasury debt, and like any banker, they wanted evidence that the United States had a plan to pay them back."

"It is a long way from the days when President George W. Bush hectored China about currency manipulation, or when President Bill Clinton exhorted the Chinese to improve human rights."

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/15/world/asia/15china.html?ref=asia

they wanted evidence that the United States had a plan to pay them back

Great. So show them the evidence. Or don't. It doesn't really matter. There's only one entity on earth who can handle China's surplus, and that's the US government. They can make statements, ask questions, do whatever they like. But in the end they'll buy because they have no other rational choice.

I love these discussions on US debt. The vast majority of US government debt is owed to US citizens and companies (period). Foreign countries own something like 15-20%.

Most of the green jobs that Madame Speaker Pelosi and Barack's super stimulus provided for have gone to China but I'm not worried, it's the effort that counts. But we expect some payback from China .

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Of the $1 billion in clean-energy stimulus money spent since the beginning of September, $850 million has gone to foreign wind companies. It doesn't take a bunch of experts at a hastily planned "jobs summit" to discover this isn't the way to bolster employment in America.

China needs to step up here, help Barack, help his party, and help America.

[seeking to enlist help in tackling urgent global problems while weighing when and how—or if—he should raise traditional human rights concerns.]

Screw the human rights concerns. Get on with the problems. As long as their human rights don't affect yours Obama all is cool. Will we see the posters that will call for him to go challenge them on human rights while at the same time tell the US not to meddle in others affairs? The academics at work again in their offices. I can't wait to hear them.

Either you are for, or not for, human rights. What tightrope are they talking about?

Didn’t he promised to create or save 3.5 million jobs? Maybe he did not mean U.S. jobs.

I think Obama is the best president in the world. I wish him success in all his endeavors.