Shorter Hu: Just shut up and buy our stuff because we’ve manipulated our currency to the point you have no choice
Posted: January 19, 2011 Filed under: Barack Obama, China, Foreign Affairs, Live | Tags: China's Human Rights Violations, FOREX manipulation China, Hu Jintao state visit, Human Rights, Human Rights Violations and China, Obama/Hu presser 33 CommentsIf you’re not watching the joint Hu/Obama presser you should be .
2.06pm ET: A Bloomberg journalist asks Hu directly why he didn’t answer the first AP question about human rights – and follows up with a query about the reaction from congressional leaders, as mentioned below.
Hu says he didn’t hear the question about human rights for technical reasons, saying it was a question directed at President Obama, but says he will answer it now:
“President Obama and I have already met eight times. each time we met we had an exchange of views in a candid manner … in the issues we covered we also covered human rights. China is always committed to the protection and promotion of human rights. In terms of human rights China has made enormous progress.”
“Chinese is a huge country with a huge population,” Hu reminds us, and it “still faces challenges in terms of reform”.
2.05pm ET: “We want to sell you all kinds of stuff. We want to sell you planes, we want to sell you cars, we want to sell you software,” says Obama in response to a question about the growth of China.
Joint asskissing session here on CPSAN2.
Notable Tweets:
Category of Yeah, just ask Tibet:
markknoller Mark Knoller
Pres Hu says China recognizes and respects the universality of human rights.
Category of True Dat:
DavidCornDC David Corn
You don’t get to be president of China without being able to justify your oppressive ways on the world’s stage. #whbrief#jobdescription
Category of British talent for Understatement:
BBCWorld BBC Global News
President Hu Jintao says China has made ‘enormous progress’ on human rights but there is still room for improvement
Category of Best Apologia by a running dog capitalist:
Why do we keeping messing with a country that manipulates their currency to screw us over and violates basic human rights… question that!
@RedState420Esq RedState420, Esq.
@Dakinikat because of it’s size & economic trajectory, and our philosophical embrace of a global marketplace.
Dakinikat (dakinikat)
@RedState420Esq A Philosophical embraces of global market places doesn’t have to involve vertical outsourcing to slaves and forex games
Category of NOW! (after it’s all over he says this!)
@jaketapper Jake Tapper
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Mona (aka Wonk the Vote)
Sky Dancing 
Dak,
Thanks for the live blogging on China and US relations. Hemm, lets see we are 900 Billion indebted, with a continual growing debt (interest) and a Tea Party Tweet asked why are we so concerned with China!?! Then there is that little issue of Human Rights, and Women’s Rights.
Oh, yes, but they’re just a little developing country that needs its space!!! Hu just kept repeating the mantra that it’s their internal affairs and we should shut up.
Oh, sheesh I just saw a Chinese ad on CNN about ‘friendship’ … they obviously learned the Madison Avenue lessons. Too bad they forgot to read our Bill of Rights first.
Gosh, I will have to check it out on my trip to China. It is amazing that the translation got all mixed up.
Big Fat Lying idiot proves he’s a racist again:
Dak, that bit about the “Just ask Tibet” category made me choke when I laughed at it.
I saw one of the Chinese press ask Obama how difficult is it dealing with a bigger, stronger, larger China (I am paraphrasing here.) I did not hear the answer, did Obama say “Well, China holds the note…how else can I deal with it…can you honestly bargain and negotiate with your banker?”
Is it me or does this read like The Onion?
Yea. All that was needed was the whining and the PLEEEZEEE
“We want to sell you all kinds of stuff.” If you told Obamaphiles that Dubya said that to China, they’d laugh and thank god that we have a genius orator like O in the WH.
He sounds like a natural born spokesmodel.
Those are the words of the President of the United States? What a joke.
I know, right? Next thing you would expect to hear is that he wants World Peace.
I think they only ask Miss American contests that question these days such as such as such as …
What does it matter anyway, looks like Obama got what he wanted: Panda diplomacy continues under Obama – The 1600 Report – CNN.com Blogs
So…we get to keep the pandas for another 5 years, who gives a fuck about human rights?
@Wonk, You got that right…Sounds like the onion, or mad TV.
Maybe O needs to put Aaron Sorkin on the payroll.
“Is it me or does this read like The Onion?”
I’m cracking up here.
Ironic that today a Nobel Peace Prize laureate is hosting a banquet for a leader who is imprisoning another Nobel Peace Prize laureate…
Then there’s the entire other level of irony about aspirational Nobel Peace Prizes and truly earned ones …
Drats. I found that image on some nonpartisan political satire site several months ago but just tracked it back further– looks like it originated from wingnut world. Well blind squirrels and all that. Not really a partisan issue to say that O hasn’t done anything to earn a NPP yet anyway.
“¡Yo quiero Taco Bell!”
Minx @ 6:45
Thanks once again for another much-needed laugh!
Did he elucidate on what exactly “progress on human rights”is? Or did he figure his 30 second sound bite would be enough?
I’ll be darned if I don’t have a choice. I am a thrift store aficianado and if it doesn’t have a made in America label I think twice. While I sympathize with the Chinese(as well as other 3rd world countries)I’ll be darned if I’ll sit quietly by and allow a select few to prosper off the exploitation of people like the Chinese. Fair trade or bust!
I love the UK Guardian headline in your sidebar: “Obama presses Hu on human rights.”
Obama: “You need to work on that whole human rights thingy.”
Hu: “We’ve made significant progress.”
Obama: “All righty then. Now, how many ‘Twilight’ DVDs can I sell you today?”
Sigh.
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I was hearing a soundtrack to that part …oh yes… I’m the great pretender …. True for both of them.
OT: And now for something completely different:
Abortion on deck in health care debate – On Congress – POLITICO.com
Oh crap! It’s Smith-Lipinski! I was trying to call attention to this in August of last year.
madamab: I just read your link, damn if I didn’t miss it back in August. It looks like NARAL is finally involved. What really pisses me off is that Reps like Shith-Lipipsqueek bring this anti-abortion crap up every year.
Look, abortion is legal…and my damn choice. Just get over it and shut the hell up. (I would like to tell these backward jerks this…and that includes any woman who will not support my right to make my own decisions about my own damn body.)
Funniest bunch of comments I’ve seen all day.
Just ask Tibet … and Xinjiang, and Inner Mongolia.
Of course, we ought not to forget that the US has the highest number of people in jail in the world on a per capita basis, so maybe we aren’t really all that far apart.