Daily World Buzz: Frost between Hu Jintao and the U.S. Congress "Do not create tensions over Tibet and Taiwan"

Friday, January 21, 2011

Frost between Hu Jintao and the U.S. Congress "Do not create tensions over Tibet and Taiwan"

WASHINGTON - Human rights, religious freedom, forced abortions, piracy, unfair competition, manipulation of the exchange: subjected to a barrage of accusations during his visit to the U.S. Congress, President Hu Jintao has lost for a moment his usual aplomb. Nth critical of the undervaluation of the renminbi is blurted out: "Is not that the problem of trade imbalances at the root is the fact that we are more productive than you." So reports the leading Republican John McCain, who attended the scene.

Because there were not journalists. To us, including the parliamentary press that always follows the Congress, the Capitol for a day has become extremely off limits. The "Chinese method" has succeeded in establishing itself in the capital of the largest western liberal democracy. No witnesses to the appointment of Hu media and Congress, is the condition imposed by the Chinese delegation, to "avoid the press to behave badly" (text, so said the press office of the Congress).

The third day of state visit to America in fact has proven the most difficult. Compared to the eve of the summit, with Barack Obama in the White House, the Congress has welcomed the Chinese leader with far more hostility. Speaker of the House, Rep. John Boehner, the night before had made a rude protocol by refusing to go to a gala dinner in honor of foreign guest.

Yesterday when Boehner found himself in front of Hu Jintao to the House a statement read him hard: "We are concerned about violations of human rights in China, including the denial of religious freedom and the use of forced abortions to enforce the one child policy . For freedom and dignity of its citizens, China's leaders have a duty to do better and the United States must recall their responsibilities.

" The leader of the Democrats, Nancy Pelosi, for his part denounced Hu before the treatment meted out to Liu Xiaobo, a dissident sentenced to 11 years in prison that could not even go to Oslo to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. A ninety Democrat and Republican have signed a bipartisan letter to denounce "the continuing violation of the rules of international trade from China." The letter ends with a warning: "America's patience is running out, our companies go bankrupt, our factories are closing and our workers are laid off because China coffin to competition." Hu Jintao has responded with a speech in which he reiterated that the US-China relations "has reached unprecedented breadth and depth," but that in the future improvement of this relationship requires "that each treats the other with respect, on a footing of equality ".

Then, he warned: "The United States do not drive voltages on Tibet and Taiwan." To describe its capitalist economic model and heavy-handed at the same time, the challenge that America has been strengthened since the last crisis, Hu Jintao has used the term "socialist market economy", an oxymoron incomprehensible or disturbing its audience in the United States.

He also highlighted the objective of "developing socialist democracy and building the rule of law in a socialist nation." He reassured that China is not engaging in an arms race, is not pursuing a policy of hegemony or expansion. " The Congress has given him a poor rating. "He came to us a lesson not to listen," complained Rep.

Keoin Brady of Texas. Same music on the left: "There has been talk," said Democratic Congressman Sander Levin of Michigan. But the attention in the capital was still monopolized by the gossip on the gala dinner on Wednesday evening. In addition to the comments of Michelle Obama sull'audace dress, bright red as the flag of the PRC, the list of VIPs who "have made it to the finish line" was X-rayed as a true organization of power.

A fierce battle had consumed between the bankers on Wall Street, but the chief executive of Goldman Sachs has emerged among the few winners. Even some ministers had to step aside to give the coveted seats to two former presidents (Clinton and Carter) and the Secretary of State Henry Kissinger 40 years ago that orchestrated the thaw with Beijing.

To why we did it to be invited Barbra Streisand she replied "because I worked at a Chinese restaurant." Most caustic of all McCain's comment: "The Nobel Peace Prize 2009 offered the dinner while the 2010 Nobel prize is under arrest."