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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNPR..Chinese Premier and Entourage Skip "Sunnyland Guest Rooms" for fear of US Spying
Xi and his entourage are not sleeping in the guest rooms, though. The Chinese delegation decided to stay at a hotel nearby out of fear that the U.S. might be spying on them a decision they made before this week's disclosures about American surveillance.NSA Scandal Looms Over Obama-Xi Talks
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June 08, 2013 5:25 AM
President Obama always intended to talk about spying this weekend. But not like this.
He's at a sprawling estate in the Southern California desert this weekend, getting to know China's new leader, but domestic controversies have followed him there.
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Some members of Obama's own party are now attacking him for overreaching, and civil liberties groups are comparing him unfavorably to President George W. Bush. So Obama was feeling the heat before he took off for to Palm Springs.
Then he arrived in the desert, where the temperature hovered around 110 degrees.
"This is a wonderful place, a place of sunshine," said China's new president, Xi Jinping, through a translator.
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President Obama always intended to talk about spying this weekend. But not like this. He's at a sprawling estate in the Southern California desert this weekend, getting to know China's new leader, but domestic controversies have followed him there.
Xi and his entourage are not sleeping in the guest rooms, though. The Chinese delegation decided to stay at a hotel nearby out of fear that the U.S. might be spying on them a decision they made before this week's disclosures about American surveillance.
http://www.npr.org/2013/06/08/189724905/nsa-scandal-looms-over-obama-xi-talks
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NPR..Chinese Premier and Entourage Skip "Sunnyland Guest Rooms" for fear of US Spying (Original Post)
KoKo
Jun 2013
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WestStar
(202 posts)1. BwaaaHaaaa. Bunch of paranoid Chinese!
If they have nothing to hide and aren't doing anything wrong, what are they worried about.
*SMDH*
malaise
(269,164 posts)2. I always knew it would come down to this
KoKo
(84,711 posts)3. lol's...does kind of say it all...