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U.S.-China Summit a Stalemate: Leslie H. Gelb on Why Dinner Almost Canceled Obama didn’t get the concessions he needed from Hu, but he simply didn’t have the cards to play, writes Leslie H. Gelb

Obama didn’t get the concessions he wanted from China’s Hu. But then, he didn’t have the cards he needed. Leslie H. Gelb on the test of wills—and why the state dinner could have been canceled.

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