China News: G-20 2009 | China Digital Times (CDT)

China News: G-20 2009 | China Digital Times (CDT): "an official transcript of a briefing by senior Obama administration officials to reporters on the bilateral meeting, released by the White House."

From their site:
"President Obama accepted President Hu’s invitation to visit China during their first face-to-face meeting ahead of the G20 meeting in London. From Fox News:

The two leaders met in London ahead of the G20 economic summit, shortly after Obama met with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. Obama also accepted an invitation to visit Moscow.

The White House said Obama and Hu agreed to “intensify coordination and cooperation on global economic and financial issues.” As economic leaders, the United States and China say they want to work together to address the economic crisis.

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will also head up a new, intensive round of talks with Chinese leaders on economic and political issues, senior Obama administration officials told FOX News.

See also from John Pomfret’s blog: “Obama and Hu, a U.S.-China Luvfest” and an official transcript of a briefing by senior Obama administration officials to reporters on the bilateral meeting, released by the White House."

From a blog on the protests:
http://berthoalain.wordpress.com/2009/03/29/g20-2009-la-peur-de-lemeute/

The thing is, today the protests were calmer. Last night there were swat teams deployed to basically arrest the protesters they took pics of and prevent them from intervention. It looked like every officer had a camera to intimidate the crowd. I am not, NOT for violent protests, however, people should always be able to fearlessly say what they think.

From the rally:


Transparency site:
http://transparency.org/news_room/in_focus/2009/g20

Circle of 13:
http://circleof13.blogspot.com/2008/03/circle-of-13-trivia.html

Spiderman who scaled the building in protest and later turned himself over to the police peacefully:

http://www.alainrobert.com/index.php/VIDEOS.html

He has an awesome site - check it out for a nice break!