Obama ‘Lavishing’ Chinese Leader Hu Jintao
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Jonathon M. Seidl
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is lavishing the grandest of White House welcomes on Chinese President Hu Jintao as the leaders of the world’s two top powers try to find common ground on economic and security issues without alienating their domestic audiences.
With many Americans blaming China at least in part for the high U.S. unemployment rate, both presidents will be looking to build trust in a relationship grounded in mutual interest but troubled by intractable disputes.
It follows an up and down two years in which an assertive China initially cold-shouldered the U.S. on climate change, did little to reel in its unpredictable ally North Korea and responded limply to U.S. pleas to mitigate trade imbalances. For its part, the U.S. riled China by selling arms to Taiwan and inviting Tibet’s spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, to the White House.
Both sides are now setting a more positive tone.
Hu was welcomed on arrival Tuesday at Andrews Air Force Base by Vice President Joe Biden and then attended the first of two dinners Obama is hosting for him during his four-day U.S. stay. After talks Wednesday, the two leaders will hold a joint news conference — just four questions allowed. A full state dinner at the White House in the evening will be the ceremonial highlight.
While the agenda is packed with weighty issues, expectations remain modest.
“Overcoming the sense of mistrust is probably the most important thing,” said Charles Freeman, a China expert at the Center for the Strategic and International Studies, a Washington-based think tank.
Hu’s visit comes as the political trajectory has shifted for both nations.
China’s success in weathering the global economic crisis coincided with an increasing confidence — critics would say brashness — on the world stage and worries among its neighbors in Asia over its growing military clout. Ultimately, that distrust has benefited the U.S., as nations such as Japan, South Korea and even Vietnam have looked to cement stronger ties with the U.S. as a regional power.
The U.S. economy has shown signs of recovery and Obama also has rebounded from his own political problems, notably the loss of one house of Congress to the Republican Party in November midterm elections. A nuclear arms reduction treaty he orchestrated with Russia was approved, and he has been lauded for a touchstone speech in the aftermath of the shooting massacre in Arizona. His previously stellar poll ratings have begun to recover after months in the doldrums.
That shift in fortunes is unlikely to translate into major concessions from Hu, but Obama may encounter a more amenable Chinese leader, who will be looking to burnish China’s image in the U.S. and his own standing before he steps down in 2012.
Stiff and media-averse, Hu, 67, has been in power since 2002. While lacking the charisma of predecessors Jiang Zemin and Deng Xiaoping, he has presided over a remarkable rise in China’s economy.
China now holds the world’s largest foreign currency reserves at $2.85 trillion and a major chunk of U.S. government debt. Economists predict it could become the world’s largest economy, eclipsing the U.S., within 20 years if not sooner.
But perceived diplomatic missteps and reports that Hu was unaware when he met this month with Defense Secretary Robert Gates about a test flight of China’s new stealth fighter have raised questions over his control of the military.
The grandeur of a White House state dinner — the first for a Chinese leader in 12 years — could go some way toward reasserting Hu’s stature in status-conscious China, where ceremony often has greater resonance than in the West.
But Hu, who will later lead a business delegation to Chicago, faces an uphill task in showing Americans that China’s rise can benefit the U.S. — beyond plugging the federal deficit with low-interest loans and offering cheaper goods to consumers.
In a starkly partisan U.S. political atmosphere, slamming China for unfair trade practices is one thing both Republicans and Democrats can agree upon. This week, lawmakers from both parties announced plans for legislation to punish China for what they say is an undervalued currency that boosts its exports at the expense of U.S. manufacturers.
The Obama administration remains leery of steps that would infuriate China, favoring persuasion instead.
Last week, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said that if Beijing wants more investment opportunities in the U.S. and access to high technology products, it also must allow a more level playing field for U.S. companies in China.
Washington will further seek common ground on North Korea amid recent signs that China has increased pressure on Pyongyang to moderate its behavior and return to negotiations after two military strikes against South Korea risked setting off a conflict on the Korean peninsula.
Shared interests, however, are unlikely to stretch to the arena of human rights — often a fly in the ointment of U.S.-China relations.
Obama’s state dinner for Hu, only the third of his presidency, comes just a month after Liu Xiaobo, a Chinese lecturer jailed for calling for reform of the one-party system, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize and barred from attending the ceremony.
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton last week appealed for China to tolerate dissent and assume the responsibilities of a world power in the 21st century. Her call for Liu’s release is likely to fall on deaf ears.
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Comments (138)
HuskerVet
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 8:55amThis is sickening to watch…
Report Post »in the meantime, Obie throws England under the bus and orally stimulates the French.
rstarce
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 8:53amAfter Obama is finished entertaining the Chinese leader in a grand style, paying for his lavish vacation with friends and family, no doubt we might have to raise the debt celing just to pay for this administrations incompetence. I guess he has to show the leader, We ain’t broke yet, but he’s working on it.
Report Post »rfycom
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 8:53amWe got caught up in our political struggle for the last 30 years and the Chinese caught up and passed us. Shame. Now all you PEOPLE want to continue the political struggle into the future. It is time we work together.
Report Post »GhostOfJefferson
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 10:07amThe best way for us to work together it to eliminate government from interfering in our lives and our business. We seemed to work together just peachy when everything wasn’t run out of Washington D.C. In fact, as I recall, we led the Industrial Revolution.
Report Post »autumnsmommie
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 12:27pmI agree with both of you. We need to band together as a country and get rid of all these rules and regulations. Let The People Be Free And Govern Ourselves! I feel like this is a dog and pony show. All we are going to do is look tough but inactuallity we are weak. We are basically owned by the chinese. If we stop regulations and spending, pay back all the money we owe them we will be stronger.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 8:42amHu feels right at home with all the communists at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
Report Post »GhostOfJefferson
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 10:06amGod help us if I ever become President.
There would be a loud and immediate flushing of all Federal employees, with ads placed in local papers across the land for “Help Wanted”. No former government employee could apply, excepting servicemen, and only if they had held no other government jobs, and the ratio of lawyers to non-lawyers could not exceed 10% of total government employment (no more than 10% lawyers or law degree holding individuals employed by the FedGov). There would be a Constitutional knowledge requirement and testing with a minimum of 90% passing to get consideration for the job.
An executive order would go out declaring January as Scotch Whiskey Appreciation Month.
I’d rent out stealth bombers as limos for dance parties.
No non U.S. citizen could own U.S. debt or property except for embassies (not sure if the President could do that, but I’d sure as hell lobby Congress to get that passed).
I’d lobby to have the Income Tax removed and replaced by nothing. Corporate taxes would be reduced to 0.0%. Any federal Death taxes would be eliminated. With this however would come the stipulation that all unconstitutional programs/agencies/laws be repealed and future programs/agencies/laws subject to STRICT constitutional adherence. The words “interstate commerce” would be forbidden as a justification. If any program/agency/law violates anything in any of the Bill of Rights, through a reasonable reading of those rights (all individual or state), then they will be eliminated with extreme prejudice. Social programs would have an Ease Out Gently structure, where current beneficiaries would not receive reduced benefits, however, no more people would be allowed on the rolls for any reason. Once attrition takes care of the existing beneficiaries, then the programs are shut down and boarded up and thrown in the trash.
The Miss America bikini competition segment would be mandated by law to occur on the White House lawn.
There would be an immediate withdrawal of all Federal lawsuits against states who were acting Constitutionally (Arizona and immigration, Cali and medical marijuana, gun lawsuits).
I‘d appoint a commission to promote Family Firearms Fun N’ Safety.
The BATF would be converted into an agency which PROMOTED those items (alcohol, tobacco, firearms), with all regulator powers removed otherwise.
The onerous and unconstitutional “tax stamp” and further unconstitutional regulations regarding small arms select fire weapons would be lifted.
I’d lobby Congress to only be allowed to meet, except in times of formally declared war, once every two years, for a term not to exceed two weeks.
Not only would the Federal Reserve be abolished, but the board members of that institution would be brought up on charges of criminal Treason for assuming a Constitutional power not allowed to them e.g. – control of the monetary system.
I’d make it a point to never, not once, excuse a turkey during Thanksgiving, and further, I’d like to be televised chopping its head off and sending it to the cooks.
Jarts will become popular again as I make it a point to have the family photographed playing them on the White House lawn.
I’d formally welcome England back as our best international buddy and further, I’d send them a bust of Obama so that they could officially throw it into the Thames with all due pomp and ceremony.
Every summit would be a beer summit.
I could go on…
:)
Report Post »kickagrandma
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 8:33amobama continues to be a betrayer of AMERICA. JESUS GOD, forgive our sins. Please, LORD, forgive our leaders their ignorance and betrayal of all YOU have created for YOUR kids in this wonderful country. Give us courage, LORD, to stand and fight for YOU and for AMERICA. This man obama is a disgrace to all except the evil that has put him into power. Actually, I suspect he embarrasses them at times,esp, when his teleprompter fails. : )
Report Post »JohnnyJT
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 8:30amStanding next to Hu, Joe Looks Foreign.
Report Post »Ron Staiger
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 8:26amNow it’s time for Obama to bow deeply, apologize profusely, beg for forgiveness, and promise not to spend any more of China’s investment. Why don‘t you kiss his ass while you’re at it Baraaaack!
Report Post »AzDebi
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 8:15amI think it is odd that our “dictator” wasn’t there to welcome their “dictator”…Where is Obama?
Report Post »psst
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 10:35amHe was practicing a new bow that he will unveil later today.
Report Post »It’s really not all that new.
It’s a reverse forwards limbo rock dance.
Hussein will go so low that he’s gonna be slithering.
No pole needed.
powedj
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 3:22pmComrad Obama was at home in the white house practicing BOWING.
Report Post »kilo62a
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 8:13amChina IS NOT in the US to negotiate for mutual advantage. They are in the game for an outright win.
Report Post »TRONINTHEMORNING
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 8:10amYEP, TRUMP 2012. He was very clear on Cavuto yesterday how he would deal with China.
Report Post »jacobstroubles
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 8:08amWhy is ANYBODY suprised at this behavior by the current administration?
Report Post »If you are, then you shouldnt be. This was clearly evident from before Nov 2008.
xm-1774u
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 8:06amno jobs americans hungry .nevermind we lose agean
Report Post »ZOMBIE JESUS LOVES ME
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 8:18amYou lose because you can’t spell, nor do you understand proper grammar, ******.
Report Post »DashRipRock
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Report Post »DashRipRock
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 8:49amHey ZOMBIE
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Report Post »GhostOfJefferson
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 9:34am@Zombie
“You lose because you can’t spell, nor do you understand proper grammar, ******.”
And you lose because you invoked two separate logical fallacies without once even attempting to address the topic at hand.
Report Post »eat-more-bacon-USA
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 8:03amObama loves the smell of Communism in the morning.
Report Post »joeliberty
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 7:54amA communist dictator getting lavished! Imagine that! I can understand some trade relations….fair trade not free trade! This guy should never step foot on our soil! Then again, if I were him I would want to see the land that I will be owning in the future as well! This is where we are headed folks! I think that some day they will own us!
Report Post »suzy000
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 7:46amChina is exuberating their newly acquired role as an economic powerhouse with no shyness whatsoever because they know this President will do nothing, nada, zilch. Sometimes persuasion works but with CHINA? They have got to have a dimbat in this WhiteHouse. We are talking about intellects 10 times smarter than the Russians. Like I said before….learn Chinese.
Report Post »hiplainsdrifter
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 7:44amIt is wondered what the anti-American said to the avowed socialist at their intimate dinner.
Report Post »beth.purdy
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 9:55amThe anti-american says, ‘Have you read “Whoretown Hears a Hu?”
Report Post »eflow504
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 7:31amobama just like clinton will hand over the keys to the country… how can people vote for dems like this i will never understand..
Report Post »parmajohn
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 7:27amTime to start learning to speak chinese?? Hope he doesn’t get the idea we all live like this…and raise intrest rates on the money we can’t pay back….
Report Post »GhostOfJefferson
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 9:08amLimbaugh reported yesterday, and I need to find out what he was referencing, that we’re not really as indebted to the Chinese as the mainstream media tries to lead us to believe. He stated, and I’m only going on his words, that they only own 11% of our debt and that we Americans outproduce them in economic and industrial output consistently year after year. I’d love to track down his source on that, because it sounds much closer to the truth than the reality that the mainstream media keeps pushing on us.
Report Post »GhostOfJefferson
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 9:28amI just consulted the numbers, last reporting in November 2010, as the more I look at it, 11% does seem a bit low.
The total debt acknowledged by the U.S. treasury is 4346.2 billion dollars (~4.3 trillion for the home viewers playing along). Mainland (commie) China owns 895.6 billion of that, or ~20.6% of the total debt. Japan is only *slightly* lower at 877.2 billion. I think the fears of “the new landlords” are still a bit overly paranoid. We could shrug off 20% of our debt and dare China to do anything about it and all they could do is gnash their teeth.
Source:
http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/tic/Documents/mfh.txt
Report Post »bulletboy
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 7:27amThey should hire the band THE WHO, and when HU gets off the plane start playing….
HU ARE YOU…HU. HU. HU. HU…..HU ARE YOU….HU. HU. HU. HU.
Report Post »nzkiwi
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 8:25amThat was hilarious! Thanks for the humour injection.
Report Post »The Rake
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 12:58pmlol
Report Post »Xcori8r
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 3:00pmI wonder if BO will have the courtesy to give Hu a reach around.
What? It’s just a hug.
Report Post »Wilma
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 7:26amAnother lavish party at our expense. LET THEM EAT CAKE!!!
Report Post »N37BU6
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 11:02amKind of a funny way to convince people you’re a responsible spender, don’t you think?
Report Post »Hondaman
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 7:25amI just wish he (Haussain Obama) would pay as much attention to the people in America. How about giving us some “Red Carpet” treatment?
Report Post »streetrodder
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 7:43amWe get the green weenie!
Report Post »NickDeringer
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 7:24amThis is a sad day for America. We are being sold down the river by a bunch of lawyers.
Report Post »citygirl56
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 7:35amThis is a very sad day. A day when our prez bows to our enemies and shuns our greatest allies. He shames himself and all of America. He is THE worst president we have EVER had in our history.
Report Post »felina g
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 8:39amno class.
Report Post »just the facts
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 2:35pmThis is the hope and change the people voted for; except it’s his change for his hope. The only way to rid this type of thinking is to rid the ‘system’ of “progressive” minded people. I do not know the depth that the progressives are dug in in terms of powerful positions, but WE all are seeing the harm they are bringing to the United States, aka the American people.
We can beat them back, we have to, but we as a country need to become more conservative. If we don’t, we loose as a people and country.
Report Post »blanco
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 7:18amWe need an official “bow” count!
Report Post »Creestof
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 10:26amI’m waiting to hear Biden make another gaff…like saying “Look America…we sent out for Chinese!”
Report Post »RobertCA
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 1:51pmOh master don’t foreclose on the US yet , give us more $$$$$$$
Report Post »LSX
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 7:18amGive him some poison laced dog food!
TRUMP in 2012
*
Report Post »Jackers
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 7:35amA warm reception, a lavish dinner, an “important” meeting with top business executives, and a lavish gala… Talk about the red carpet treatment! Too bad we have to borrow the money from China to pay for all of this pomp and circumstance…
Report Post »79USMC83
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 7:35amLAVISHING the President of China that flew to this country in a COMMERCIAL airliner !!!!
TERM LIMITS NOW !!
FAIR TAX NOW !!
Report Post »Tagudinian
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 7:37amSickening display of American weakness and subservience… Obama style.
Report Post »TXPilot
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 7:40amDonald Trump was right, the Chinese economy depends on us to keep it going, so we have the power. Obama is yet again, embarassing the citizens of this country.
And I highly aggree with your last statement LSX……Donald Trump would make an excellent choice for President in 2012. It’s time to rebuild our respect in the world, and have someone in office who actually understands how to manage money. Trump is a kick-ass, take names, no-nonsense businessman who doesnt bow and scrape to anyone. He also understands that government hinders or destroys most anything it touches…….he is just what we need!!
Report Post »KICKILLEGALSOUT
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 7:55amNow the Traitor in the White House and the Chinese American Secretary of Energy Steven Chu have decided to help their beloved Chinese motherland and further the goals of Socialism with their new agreement just made to establish a Nuclear Center in China. Don’t worry, China will pay for it all we have to do is provide free technology and expertise!
That’s right, the Traitors in our government have sold us out to the Chinese again! How does this help America? Once again the Chinese use us and we get nothing in return only! They will only use this against us in the future, how naive can our representatives be!
What is worse is Obama and Timothy Geithner have already told the Chinese that if they raise the value of the Yuan then they would allow more export of high tech products which China would just steal the technology and soon be competing against us with the same products.
President Hu JinTao has already mentioned that they are quietly ramping up their outbound investment into US manufacturing and Real Estate, meaning soon they start to quietly by up the USA with their huge foreign reserves! Accompany this news with Obama wanting to decrease the value of the dollar? This makes it an even better deal for China to buy the US with a stronger Yuan!
You can read the articles about it here.
http://articles.latimes.com/2008/may/05/business/fi-chinainvest5
http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/Issues/The-Economy/2011/01/17/China-Brings-Investment-Deals-Worth-600-Million.aspx
Our government officials are selling us out to China and they must be stopped now!
Report Post »Stop the Foreign Invasion of America!
tifosa
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 7:57amWE THE PEOPLE want to know, WWPPD? (What would president palin do?) ;)
Report Post »Rational Man
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 8:00amTX,
I don’t know how you figure that the US “has the power” when we owe the Chinese more than we can pay back. They supply the US with most of our goods. They lead us in nearly every competing factor and are the new leading world super power. We are under their thumb….big time! Educate yourself and try to catch up.
Obama is kissing up because China could call in their note on us and reposess a large part of our country…..Yea, we are so powerful that China is trying to change our currency because we have de-valued the dollar so badly and un-necessarily that they don’t trust us to pay them back. China is watching our credit rating go down the toilet and they consider the US a very risky financial partner and have been scolding us for it for some time now.
Watch the Glenn Beck Show!…You’d be surprised what you might learn!
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 8:04amAmerica’s MasterCard
Report Post »Zay Gezunt
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 8:08am…or some of our exceptional hamburger meat.
Report Post »Ironmaan
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 8:08amWhen your banker comes to town you must kiss his ass. It also doesn’t hurt that Mr. Hu and Mr. Obama are similar politically.
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DashRipRock
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 8:10amDoes this mean they are going steady now?
Report Post »chazman
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 8:13amOBAMA is probably rubbing Hu’s feet before bedtime. If I were president I wouldn’t even allow this commie into our country!
Report Post »nzkiwi
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 8:22amYour landlord has arrived, my dear friends, to inspect his property. He’ll be our landlord soon enough also, I expect.
Report Post »jgeezy
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 8:40amBeck had it right. Our landlord is in town, and rent is due.
http://practicalpolitician.wordpress.com/
Report Post »Muslim in Chief
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 9:05amApologize!!!
Report Post »GhostOfJefferson
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 9:06amDon’t most foreign leaders/dignitaries receive this kind of treatment though, regardless of who is POTUS? As I recall, when Bush Jr. was in office, he treated the Chinese very nicely and had their flag flown outside the White House, didn’t he? Or am I thinking of somebody else?
Report Post »Zay Gezunt
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 9:12amIt would have been best to kick him in the teeth, and demand to know why they have been so hostile to us by buying our debt and helping us out.This would show how strong and civilzed we are.
Report Post »It’s time to get a grip folks, and try to realise that China is rising….rapidly.
Oh by the way, forget all this human rights stuff. We didn’t get a civil rights act until 1965;and only gave our women the right to vote 90 years ago.
…..and let’s not forget how Americans waged war in China to force them to buy the opium we wanted to supply the just 150 years ago.
Cobra Blue
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 10:09amThe little boy President had better take care of the Chinese leader…after all they own us and we wouldn’t want them to get angry. The Chinese must be laughing at us…along with the rest of the world…..Sad…sad…sad
Report Post »nzkiwi
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 10:21amIf you want to annoy these guys, hold up a Tibetan or Taiwanese flag where Hu can see it. We did that in New Zealand and they went NUTS!! (It was the deputy leader in that case actually, but what an effect.)
Make sure you have a camera handy when you do it.
Report Post »Dandylyon
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 11:01amThe communist dictator come‘s to see his new country and the other communist lacky bow’s to him in submission.WELL!! I’m really proud to be an American.I’m starting to feel sick to my stomach.
Does anyone doubt the saying “ONE MAN can change the world” now??
Report Post »cross hairs
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 11:26amObama needs to butter him up so he’ll treat him nice when China takes control of the USA soon.
Report Post »SimpleTruths
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 11:35amTIFOSA – that’s an easy one, she’d quit.
Report Post »heyjim55
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 12:21pmI guess we can expect a good SNL skit this Saturday.
Report Post »Kid Charlemagne
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 12:53pm@ rationalman – I would love to know where you got your facts from
1.) China owns 7% of our debt, that‘s it and that’s all. No need for fear mongering.
2.) They can’t call in the debt. What they do own are notes that have a maturity date that you can’t call in. Similar to owning a bond from GE and saying before the maturity date “I want a lightbulb”.
3.) When the debt does mature, do you actually believe in any situation that they would get U.S. land?! Think about that for just one second. Also, other countries have defaulted on their debts. Do several countries now own a piece of Argentina? Ofcourse not. You take a haircut, you made a bad investment.
Please don’t spread your conspiracy and outlandishness
Report Post »Cherished Emblems
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 1:20pmHe needs a new tailor, looks like my son in my jacket…
Report Post »tifosa
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 6:09pmSIMPLETRUTH You betcha ;)
Report Post »Butter-Pants
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 7:58pmOvomit SUX
Report Post »oldguy48
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 7:17amThe bankers in town, better keep trying to pull the wool over his eyes. The problem is, he isn’t as dumb as our “elites”. The guys that lent us the money are probably already executed.
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