Hu Jintao, China’s enigmatic leader, is now in Washington for President Obama’s two-day Nuclear Security Summit. His symbolic presence in the American capital is a climbdown for the Politburo Standing Committee, which not long ago was determined to punish America.
Beijing’s bender started in Copenhagen in December. At the climate-change conference, Wen Jiabao, the usually mild-mannered premier of China, went out of his way to snub Obama as the Chinese delegation torpedoed a global deal on reducing carbon emissions.
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