周三晚間，中國國家主席胡錦濤出席美國總統奧巴馬為他舉辦的國宴。 奧巴馬總統和身著紅色長裙禮服的奧巴馬夫人在國宴廳外面迎接了胡錦濤主席。 據美聯社報道，國宴將是典型的美國風味，席間台上將演奏爵士樂。 這是美國13年來首次為中國領導人舉辦國宴。 President and Mrs. Obama welcomed China's President Hu Jintao to a glittery state dinner for 225 Wednedsay night, with guests ranging from Wall Street titans to a human rights champion, to a pair of former presidents -- Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton -- and a clutch of entertainers and business leaders. The event also featured an all-American dinner capped by apple pie and ice cream and the news flash from Obama that China will let Washington's National Zoo keep Mei Xiang and Tian Tian, its adorable loaner pandas, for another five years. After the toasts came a jazz concert. Most guests arrived via a ground floor entrance and walked across the marble floor past a media scrum -- there was no red carpet, this being the White House, not the Golden Globes -- and it's not clear whether any of them noticed the dozens of protestors across Pennsylvania Avenue. The protestors spent much of the day demonstrating against China's crackdown on the religious group Falun Gong and against China's tough policies in Tibet. Kenneth Roth, who heads Human Rights Watch, stopped to talk to reporters on his way to cocktails and addressed that very issue when he said, "I take it that was the reason I was invited, as a statement to President Hu...These days the ...
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