The US-China relationship and India-US ties are on different scales, the White House said, asserting that the commercial diplomacy around the India trip of President Barack Obama was significant.
The state visit of the Chinese President, Hu Jintao, beginning today is different from Obama's November trip to India, it added. "It (Hu's US visit)'s a little different than our trip to India, in the sense that the economic relationship that we have with the Chinese is different on a scale with what we do with India, which is why some of the commercial diplomacy around the India trip was so significant," the White House Press Secretary, Robert Gibbs, told reporters at his daily news conference.
"We continue to believe that American companies produce the best products in the world and that they have a demand from China," Gibbs said, hours before the Chinese President was to land at the Andrews Air Force Base Tuesday afternoon on his four-day State visit to the United States. Obama is hosting a State Dinner for Hu on Thursday, the first for a Chinese President in 13
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