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Hu Jintao is also grandpa

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... ...full story at Danwei

from Danwei on Thu, Jul 17 2008

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