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The Presidential Planner Abroad
November 15, 2009 9:01 PM
From Sunlen Miller:
In his first visit to China, President Obama today will first visit with United States Consulate employees and their families in Shanghai, as he has at each stop on his week-long tour of Asia so far.
This morning Mr. Obama will sit down with local politicians: Party Secretary, Yu Sheng, and the Mayor of Shanghai Han Zheng in the banquet hall of the Xijiao State Guest House. After their meeting the leaders will sit down for a working lunch together.
In the afternoon at the Shanghai Science and Technology Museum Mr. Obama will host a town hall meeting with “future Chinese leaders.” Several hundred students, the youth of China, will join the President at the event, coming from many local universities.
Beforehand the White House solicited questions online which the President will respond to during the town hall. White House aides estimate hundreds, if not thousands, have already been submitted online.
The President will call on the roughly 400 college students in the audience at random and no one from US will have vetted their questions, The White House says. Aides says this event "is the same as if it were in Iowa,” referencing the many town halls then-candidate Obama held during the 2008 Presidential campaign.
The town hall will be live streamed on the White House website, an unblocked website in China, in order to reach the “broadest possible audience,” Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategic Communications Ben Rhodes says.
“We will stream the event live on WhiteHouse.gov, which is an accessible Web site to anybody with an Internet connection in China, which is hundreds of millions, I think. It's the largest Internet-using country in the world. So the portion that we control, which is our Web site, we will certainly be live-streaming the event. China -- as to what the Chinese will do, we'll see.”
White House and embassy officials are still negotiating with the Chinese as to whether Obama's town hall will be broadcast live on CCTV and local Shanghai stations, ABC’s Yunji de Nies reports, a White House aide expects this back and forth to continue up to when the town hall begins.
Mr. Obama will then fly to Beijing, his second city in China during his four-country tour. There will be a welcome ceremony at the Capitol International airport for his arrival.
In the evening Mr. Obama will sit down one-on-one with China’s President Hu Jintao in Yangyuan Hall of the Diaoyutair State Guest house. The two leaders will then have dinner in the Banquet Hall.
-Sunlen Miller
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What are your choices as a consumer in the 'free' world? Would you like to buy a product from China or a product from Pakistan?
That's the choice good old 'free' multi-national corporations have given us 'free' consumers - which repressive, or semi-repressive hot-bed of terrorism foreign country would you like to support?
Seems to me its time for Americans and 'free-world' corporations to put their money where their mouths are . . .
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Distracted by the word 'Walmart', they failed to see the main point . .. weak.
Posted by: tierra | Nov 16, 2009 3:55:56 PM
You walk into a Walmart
Posted by: tierra | Nov 15, 2009 11:59:40 PM
So don't walk in.
Posted by: Visualize Whirled Peas | Nov 16, 2009 10:55:12 AM
No one forces anyone to shop or work at Walmart.
Don't like it? Don't shop there.
Posted by: Krakatoa | Nov 16, 2009 8:24:26 AM
Very true.I'm not sure what Obama's trip to China has to do with Wal-Mart (although Robert Greenwald has created a documentary that shines a light on who pays for Wal-Mart's cheap products from China and some have said that WalMart accounts for 10% of our trade deficit with China) but for those who want information on why many, including myself, choose to shop elsewhere,
Posted by: @Octavia | Nov 16, 2009 10:54:52 AM
No one forces anyone to shop or work at Walmart.
Don't like it? Don't shop there.
Posted by: Krakatoa | Nov 16, 2009 8:24:26 AM
Obama is signaling that his paymasters have found another promising building-block for their global ruling-elite corporate/financial EMPIRE, one which they would like him to charm and incorporate.
Alan MacDonald | Nov 15, 2009 10:49:15 PM
I can almost hear the black helicopters circling...
Posted by: jhw539 | Nov 16, 2009 12:07:41 AM
You walk into a Walmart (MaoMart) and what are your choices as a consumer in the 'free' world? Would you like to buy a product from China or a product from Pakistan?
That's the choice good old 'free' multi-national corporations have given us 'free' consumers - which repressive, or semi-repressive hot-bed of terrorism foreign country would you like to support?
Seems to me its time for Americans and 'free-world' corporations to put their money where their mouths are . .
Posted by: tierra | Nov 15, 2009 11:59:40 PM
"The President will call on the roughly 400 college students in the audience at random and no one from US will have vetted their questions, The White House says. Aides says this event "is the same as if it were in Iowa,” referencing the many town halls then-candidate Obama held during the 2008 Presidential campaign."
How soon we forget (or didn't forget) from July 1st:
"CBS' Chip Reid and Helen Thomas double teamed Robert Gibbs today at the daily press briefing on the "tightly controlled" town hall meeting President Obama will hold on health care. Gibbs kept saying lets have this discussion AFTER the meeting.
"Helen Thomas accused the White House of 'controlling the press.' She said almost all White House/Obama events are 'prepackaged.' She accused the White House of not 'having any answers.'"
Posted by: Krakatoa | Nov 15, 2009 11:01:01 PM
Obama is signaling that his paymasters have found another promising building-block for their global ruling-elite corporate/financial EMPIRE, one which they would like him to charm and incorporate.
"Yes, we can do EMPIRE bidness with China. They sure know how to manage their human cogs, and keep things going swimmingly. Bloody good show, old men."
Or as Dylan Ratigan might say beyond Keynesians, “We’re all Corporate Communists now.”
Alan
Posted by: Alan MacDonald | Nov 15, 2009 10:49:15 PM
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