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Hu Jintao is also grandpa

Posted by Jeremy Goldkorn, July 17, 2008 12:12 PM
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Grandpa Hu

The spin doctors at Xinhua have evidently decided that President Hu Jintao needs a little of the kindly grandpa reputation that Premier Wen Jiabao enjoys in China.

The below is from a Xinhua report that is a top story, with photo, on Xinhua's English website. The article also appears on Xinhua's Chinese site, but does not have the same prominent placement. In the Chinese version of the article, one of the children calls the President 'Grandpa Hu (胡爷爷).

As the special guests of Chinese President Hu Jintao, 88 students from the quake-hit areas on Wednesday visited Zhongnanhai, the compound of central authorities, and had a joyous time with grandpa Hu before going to Russia for recuperation.

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Why are these kids sent to Russia? Why not other kids? Inequal treatments for earthquake kids will only add sald to the wound.

Posted by: On the other hand | July 17, 2008 2:36 PM

HJT might better burnish the grandfatherly image if he'd stop dying his hair.

very vain, very womanly, to do so; and wholly inconsistent with becoming a "grandpa."

Posted by: b. | July 17, 2008 6:47 PM

but wholly consistent with being a politburo member.

Is proxy4china blocked now too? (besides anonymouse)

Posted by: Hatch SZ | July 17, 2008 10:03 PM

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