China Beat Archive
Date of this Version
2012
Document Type
Article
Citation
2012 Feb 21 in The China Beat http://www.thechinabeat.org/
Abstract
Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping’s visit to the US took him across the country, from Washington, DC, to Los Angeles (where, sadly, despite spending some time with a sartorially-challenged David Beckham, he did not show off his soccer skills, as he did in the subsequent Irish leg of his trip).
But it wasn’t the visits to the coasts that dominated human interest stories on Xi Jinping’s trip, but the days in the middle, when he spent a little time in Iowa. Xi first visited Iowa in 1985, when he was an official in Hebei province, and this trip was a triumphant if low-key return.
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Copyright 2012 Kate Merkel-Hess.