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Archive: August 19, 2011

4:26 P.M. (Local)         PRESIDENT HU:  (As translated.)  Honorable Vice President, it is a great pleasure to meet you again in just half a year’s time.  I want to welcome you to pay this official visit to China.         Mr.…

Leadership Compound Beijing, China 3:10 P.M. (Local)   PREMIER WEN:  (As translated.)  It’s a great pleasure to meet you today, Mr. Vice President.  I note that we were born in the same year.  You have spent about 35 years in…

Beijing Hotel Beijing, China 10:42 A.M. (Local)   VICE PRESIDENT XI:  (As translated.)  Vice President Biden, representatives of the business communities of the two countries, ladies and gentlemen, dear friends, it gives me great  pleasure today to have this operation…

This week in Somalia, the terrorist group Al-Shabaab burst into a hospital in Mogadishu and kidnapped three aid workers who were treating innocent civilians injured by the fighting in that war-torn nation.  This senseless attack came almost a year to…