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away from the beginning of a press conference at the white house between presidents obama and hu. we understand that two questions will be taken from each side, four questions in total. we will have translation. we will be bringing it to you. mary brown bullock is with me. am i overselling it by saying this is really a crucial press conference for people who maybe don t like to watch press conferences? this one might make a difference. it s very important. it s probably hu jintao s last state visit to the united states. he wants to leave a legacy. he s out in two years. what kind of message does he want to give both to his own. they are all standing up. let s listen in. let s watch. everybody, please have a seat. good afternoon. it is my pleasure to welcome president hu to the white house and to return the hospitality that he showed when i visited china last year. this is our eighth meeting.
thank you, everybody. okay. you ve just watched the end of the press conference. very long press conference, hampered by a very strange technical snafu. it can t have been intentional that they did not have simultaneous translation. both the president looked a bit troubled by that and hu jintao actually commented he didn t know that was going to happen. it ended up taking a lot longer than expected. i want to talk to my guest mary brown bullock about what stood out to you, other than that technical snafu, from what you heard at that press conference? well, i think two things. one, certainly president obama hit the high points in u.s./china relations. i don t think there s anything he missed. i thought it was very interested. it was late in his talk, but he did get to the human rights and even brought in the issue of tibet, recognizing sovereignty
didn t hear the human rights question the first time. it raised my eyebrows when he skipped over it. maybe it was literally lost in translation. but had they got the follow-up question, he did answer pretty straightforward at least on the surface saying, look, i ve talked about this with president obama many times. we ve essentially agreed to disagree, but we ve had candid conversations. he said what you might call the right things, look, china is always concerned about the promotion and protection of human rights. china is a developing country, interested in democracy and the rule of law. all of that sounds wonderful in theory, but in practice it seems far from the reality of what s really happening in china today. so there seemed to be a deep, deep divide in what president hu was trying to sell the world and what s really going on in china. all right, ed, was there anything there you have been saying very clearly to us in the lead-up to this, the same question i asked mary, there
manufacturing industry? right. those are the hard questions for american politics and we do have to worry about those protections. i thought obama was very eloquent in his reepeated talkig about jobs. you could say this press conference for president obama was selling america to china. right. he even said, we have so much to sell. right. we want to keep selling, we want to sell you planes. he s trying to educate the united states as he is talking, whether that s sufficient for congress i don t know. mary, great to talk to you. thank you. mary brown bullock, the president amerit us and distinguished visiting professor of china studies. let s go to ed henry who was in that room. boy, that was an interesting press conference. what did you and the press corps take away from how candid or transparent president hu was? reporter: well, i think president hu maybe because of the technical glitch he just