Amid talk of how the Bush Administration is risking going lame duck, let it be noted that Hu's first stops in America were Boeing and Microsoft.

In the kitchen, the counter displayed a recipe and instructions in Chinese for making foccacia bread, prompting Hu to ask if you still need a housekeeper if you have RFID tags.

Is "housekeeper" a keyword for those people who round up dissidents and stick them in prison?

"Because you, Mr. Bill Gates, are a friend of China, I'm a friend of Microsoft," he said.

Now, if Bush doesn't get such nice words in regards to China and American relations.. Get nervous.

"I'd also like to take this opportunity to assure you, Bill Gates, that we will certainly our words in protecting intellectual property rights," Hu said.

Eh? "we will certainly our words"? Lingual mistake? Either way, words and actions are two different things.

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