Summers, Donilon Get Unusual China Access as Yuan Debate Looms
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China’s President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao were among at least five ruling Politburo members who met with two key advisers to President Barack Obama this week, exchanges that Hu said had “gone well.”
The red-carpet treatment afforded White House National Economic Council Director Lawrence Summers and Deputy National Security Advisor Thomas Donilon comes a week before key congressional hearings on whether the yuan is undervalued.