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Thu 11 Nov 2009Obama holds trade talks with Chinese premier
LIKE MANY of his predecessors, Barack Obama visited the Great Wall on the last day of his visit to China, crowning a trip that revealed little chemistry between him and the Chinese leadership but underlined the increasingly close links between the two countries.
“It is my sincere hope that your current visit will lift the comprehensive and co-operative China-US relations to a new level,” premier Wen Jiabao told Mr Obama at their meeting in the state guesthouse in Beijing, on the last day of the US leader’s visit.
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