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Obama Loses His Star Power–in China – Deal Journal – WSJ

Posted on | November 11, 2009 | Comments Off

Alumnus Jody Xu reports on the less-than-stellar welcome President Obama received ahead of his China trip: 

Despite the message intended by President Obama from his spending the longest time in China on his first trip to Asia next week, the Chinese people are nonplussed.

One person asked in People Forum, an online chat room of the Peoples Daily: “Mr. President, don’t you think this is a bad time to visit given your recent approval to increase tax on Chinese tires and the escalating trade war against us?”

China’s leading English-language weekly, Global Times, found in an online poll that, out of 8,100 respondents, 86% said they either “do not anticipate” or “do not care much” about the coming visit of the U.S. President.

Obama Loses His Star Power–in China – Deal Journal – WSJ

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