U.S. / P.R.C. Meeting in Los Angeles - June 2013 - Unbearable Lightness.

Media Photo - "This man can think," or at least it appears so.

With respect to the two - day meeting in Southern California this week between the U.S. President, Obama and Xi Jin ping, and while the most important post in P.R.C. is not that of its own president who's meeting with the Americans this week; it is undoubted that some major topics will be addressed, including those of the national security of both countries with respect to technology infrastructure, human rights, territory rights in the Pacific Ocean, Southeast Asia, international economics including Yuan currency values and trade, foreign direct investment (maybe by another name here), nuclear proliferation and security, and a myriad of other topics will probably be mentioned.  There are probably more salient and extremely important topics to both these leaders personally than can be looked at during their two days together in June this year, and even through further contact during a summit scheduled for July 2013 than will be addressed.  It is also foreseeable their talks will generate mountains of work, including paperwork, projects, tasks, new jobs, new money, new promises and obligations for both and the like, to keep a good number of people puzzling and very busy about what is said in the next couple of days by the two principals involved and their intent in, again, scheduling this meeting in the first place.  Rancho Mirage is also a kind of golf country, and if Xi Jin ping does not play golf, he needs be introduced to it here in this hotbed of the sport of all places.  The U.S. President might not overlook this, and people like me would consider it a major gaffe to not allow Mr. Xi at least a try at putting on a practice green, if not walking a course.  Mr. Xi might indeed play golf as well, in which case that universe is open  to both these executive leaders. 

If there is any question about the possibility of the U.S. President consorting with communists and the like, it is probably clear from the venue chosen here that he does not, nor does he really harbor socialist views that might stem from his undergraduate studies and legal training and so forth; and even though Boston these days is a very liberal place and has been for some time.  Probably only, the U.S. President under the circumstances, and especially given the presence of the Chinese community in Southern California, is sympathetic to many dilemmas these people face in their long journey to assert themselves credibly, even despite political and cultural baggage and in view of hearing out his Vice - President on the subject - though this is not a big picture consideration with respect to current events and might make its way into the language of something said here about the socio - economic situation or human rights situations in both countries.  With that, and as if such meetings are not complicated enough and difficult to carry on and talk about later given what is mentioned there and related implications and interpretations, one might see the following readings:  CNBC article; New York Times article; Brookings Blog; Heritage Blog, Sina.com writing; CSIS; Reuters, ABC - all worthy and more of reading about this meeting.  One might even search on the internet for latest news, and check the AP and other wires, and C - SPAN, C.N.N. and Bloomberg - this meeting, by its format and venue, even in what considers issues of form only, is quite important and people need pay attention to announcements about it and what will happen in July at the next one.  In the midst of this latest difficulty the U.S. administration faces over use of the Treasury against political enemies, the fallout over the deaths of Ambassador Stevens and his colleagues in Libya, and some other things, this event well invites the lightness and overall tone of international friendship between U.S. and P.R.C. at this point in the political and diplomatic game, and on a quite grand and elegant scale here.  Think as well that Southern California is used by the Eastern establishment for that these days, and one has to know the world has changed from the past Western establishment mood about P.R.C. that it glaringly harbored years ago.