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At every step, sometimes Kong-based U.S. citizen who says her mother and brother are imprisoned in western China's N21 Fame FING =p ters ‘808 CHILD/Ass: HuJintao, President of the People’s Republic of China, makes a point as he delivered an address at Yale University in New Haven, Conn., on Friday. Yale, Huparried the question erationofleaders. but insisted China would “not simply copy the political models economy,” needs a nonthreat- Hu evenseeded the official English translation of his Yale diplomat but occasional global mostpoetic moment, saying fueled experimentin capitalism, dubbed t! he “‘socialist market eningfront man to be not only of a modernChina thatis racing “to undertakeoneofthe great- salesman. In Seattle, Hu toured Boeing, which makes the most basic instrumentsof globalization — air- history,”in the words of former planes. He stopped in to talk with Bill Gates, icon of entrepre- quitesubtiy, Hu told the story est transformations in modern Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo, a Hu acquaintance who nowruns Yale's Centerfor the Studyof GI The 2006 edition of Hu Jintao seems morerelaxed than the manwhoinherited China’s top post from Jiang Zemin in 2002. neurial success, andlet loose a quip that resonated with American cubicle jockeys everywhere: “I am dealing with the operating system produced byMicrosoft every day.” With President Bush on Thursday, Hu played the tough speech with echoes of Lincoln's developmentin China“must be for the people andbythe people, and its benefit aie be shared among-the But the more rrediioea! story remained: Hu reminded the audienceat everyturn, usually through ancient proverbs, that China is 5,000 years old — the implication being that the United States is a toddler by comparison. calibrated narrative wasinter- importanceoftalking. At Yale, storytellers whohave different views of today’s China. At the White House on Thursday, a reporter for a newspaper connected to the banned CEOofa corporation. looking China that wantsits people to benefit from the “welloff society” promised by his gen- It’s a perfect image for a coun- in the world remained an enigma. “The question we haveto ask the Chinese leaderis, ‘Who are you?”Harold Hongju Koh, the dean of Yale’s law school and Those assembled laughed at the but open-minded leader, yielding no groundbutextolling the stiff but in-charge demeanor — try whoseforeigninvestment- Saturday. Despite his performance, the front man for the most closely watched developing economy the top human rights official in the Clinton administration,said at a symposium after Huleft. His appearance — darksuit, he touted the rise of an outward- of other countries.” Then he left, headed for Saudi Arabia, where the two nations signed defense, security and trade agreements Americabeing the chaotic democracythatit is, Hu’s precisely pleasant but nondescript face, makes him seemlikethe vanilla Sictuan province for supporting Falun Gong. “I'm not sure your average American that they know the propaganda China,not the genuine China.” Asked about human rights by one audience member at rupted here andtherebyother pun. Then Koh added thekicker, invoking Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend:“As the song says whenit answers, ‘Were- ally wanna know.’” Toll Continued from Al The stickers must be posted onthe front and rear of ve- ‘ hicles. 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