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Avoiding DNC, Hillary Clinton gets snubbed in China

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is in China this week rather than at the Democratic National Convention, and she’s not getting nearly as warm a welcome as the party faithful might have given. 

Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping, regarded as the nation’s next leader, did not show up for a press conference with Clinton this morning. 

“Clinton’s scheduled talk this morning with Vice President Xi Jinping had been called off by the Chinese side,” Time’s Hannah Beech explains,

The Chinese government knows a lame duck when they see one, and they see no point in continuing to jaw-jaw with the Obama administration. They are forecasting that this administration has only four months left to go. And anyway, they know that Obama will focus on nothing whatsoever except the campaign between now and November, so there is no point in treating with Ms. Clinton now.