Jintao Hu - Obama Presidency Oral History Back Jintao Hu Index / People Transcripts Steven Chu ...In Jiang Zemin's time, and in Hu Jintao 's time—that's twenty years—abou... Derek Chollet ...the other thing that happens is that Hu Jintao of China is in Washington for a state visi... ...as well. So yes, I had forgotten that Hu Jintao was visiting Washington at that time... Daniel Russel ...many of the leaders, had just hosted Hu Jintao early in 2011, and so on. So yes, ther... ...but what we were experiencing under Hu Jintao and Wen Jiabao was a kind of maelstro... ...up with the idea of building into the Hu Jintao state visit to Washington in January o... ...Jinping was in pole position to succeed Hu Jintao at the Eighteenth Party Congress i... ...the most of it. The key advisor to President Hu Jintao —and Hu Jintao was not particularl... ...key advisor to President Hu Jintao—and Hu Jintao was not particularly easy to work with... ...with, by the way—but the key advisor to Hu Jintao was the state counselor named Da... ...a mixed record with the Chinese under Hu Jintao . I wasn't involved in Obama's Novembe... ...be a full-blown state visit, just like Hu Jintao just had last year, and that was no... Show more... Robert Gates ...that was a much more strident China. Hu Jintao , who was the leader while I wa... Susan Rice ...of it. But they—with Xi's predecessor, Hu Jintao , there was no getting him off th... Evan Medeiros ...in '09 was—number one, it was run by Hu Jintao . It was not run by Xi Jinping. H... ...Jintao. It was not run by Xi Jinping. Hu Jintao and the premier Wen Jiabao especially... ...Obama, and Obama's conversations with Hu Jintao , were an important part of tha... ...diplomacy. I mean, he had met Hu Jintao before at a couple differen... ...at the end of their meetings, Obama and Hu Jintao get up together, each give a statement... ...either. He was trying to be the non- Hu Jintao , which was an easy thing to do. At th... Show more... Kenneth Roth ...and they got nothing out of it. When Hu Jintao came to the United States, th... Hillary Clinton ...Chinese leader, with, you know, with Hu Jintao . And we couldn't find him. Th... ...looking for you. Oh, gosh.” And then Hu Jintao said, “Well, maybe we can come to som... ...years!” I mean, he was just on a rant. Hu Jintao was taken aback, because this was ... ...see if we can't agree on something.” Hu Jintao ignored the—in fact, the rant reall... ...helped us, because it embarrassed Hu Jintao , and it kind of pointed out to Singh... Tom Donilon ...of the Russian Federation; and Hu Jintao , then the president of China, was i... Timothy Geithner ...Obama was set to host Chinese president Hu Jintao at the White House, you delivered ... Load more Transcripts Related Topics go to the Middle East and North Africa Middle East and North Africa go to the LGBTQ Policy LGBTQ Policy go to the Human Rights Human Rights go to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Nuclear Nonproliferation go to the East Wing East Wing