Chinese President’s visit to US

President Hu flew in to DC on what was billed as a "summit of strategic importance". That is not how it turned out to be.

A Falun Gong heckler, who was obviously allowed in on purpose, heckled Hu for several minutes, calling him "killer". Then an announcer introduced Chinese national anthem as that of Republic of China (Taiwan), instead of People’s Republic of China. Finally, there was that sequence, where Bush first asked Hu to step off the stage, and then grabbed him by his arm and pulled him back on.

In short, if you cut the diplomatic jargon, it is fair to say that President Hu was ’roughed up’ in DC.

Now if one considers the facts that it is China whose buying of US treasuries is supporting the american binge, that if China were to cancel its order with Boeing and instead move to European Airbus, and that if China were to dump merely 10% of its dollar reserves in favor of Euro, there will be a tsunami of economic unrest in US - the treatment of President Hu seems quite audacious!