Hu’s coming to dinner

China | Bill Gates and China’s president dine & deal | Mark Bergin

SEATTLE - Moments after touching down on his first official U.S. visit on April 18, Chinese president Hu Jintao exited the private airstrip of Boeing's Paine Field to face a wall of colorful protest banners. Similar displays haunted the Communist Party leader throughout his two-day stay in the Pacific Northwest as Tibetan and Taiwanese groups demanded independence and Falun Gong meditation practitioners decried obscene persecution—alleging Chinese concentration camps where organs are harvested from live prisoners for sale on the black market.

But the arrival of Mr. Hu's substantial motorcade at the façade of his downtown hotel elicited a welcoming chorus of love and support from a sea of Chinese Americans lining the police-barricaded street. Washington state governor Christine Gregoire lowered her tinted window to wave and smile at a crowd holding scores of Chinese and American flags.

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