It Is Hard to Be Pres. Obama

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Did Obama give Wen Jiabao another wow bow?  Los Angeles Times, Dec. 19, 2009.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2009/12/obama-wen-jiabao-bow.html

My comment: When I first saw this photograph this morning at the front page of Financial Times, I did not see anything extraordinary.


----------------Separately
(1) Ho Chi Minh, punning poet (in Jacket Copy: Books, authors and all things bookish), Los Angeles Times, Dec. 18, 2009.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy/2009/12/ho-chi-minh-punning-poet.html

which refers to

Rachel Leow, Chai Zi, or, Ho Chi Minh was a Puntastic Poet. A  Historian’s Craft [idleThinK annotated]. Nov. 26, 2009.
http://idlethink.wordpress.com/2009/11/26/chaizi/

My comment:
(a) Leow 劉
(b) Ho Chi Minh
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ho_Chi_Minh#In_the_Soviet_Union_and_China
(i) only alludes to the imprisonment in China: "He was also jailed in China for many months by Chiang Kai-shek's local authorities. After his release in 1943, he again returned to Vietnam."
(ii) talks about his Chinese wife, a Cantonese woman named 曾雪明. Something that I was unaware of.

(2) Frank Ahrens, Thayer Lodging joins Chinese firm to buy Interstate Hotels. Washington Post, Dec. 19, 2009.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/18/AR2009121802096.html?sub=AR
(Washington area businessman Frederic "Malek said [his] Thayer [Lodging Group] wanted to develop an online, real-time reservation system for China like the one that exists in the United States")

Note: Jin Jiang 锦江酒店
www.jinjianghotels.com

(3) Luo Jun and Irene Shen, ‘Sizzling’ Shanghai Homes Defy Tax, Bubble Concerns. Bloomberg, Dec. 18, 2009.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=aqiNuxetDZbg&pos=15
("Average new apartment prices in Pudong gained 57 percent this year to a record $4,061 per square meter")

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