I found out later they were discussing how much time the encounter would take up on the local news programs that evening and if my picture would be in the paper the following day.
After the meeting I was convinced that the king and his equally impressive wife, Queen Rania, would be positive forces in the region for a long time to come.
After the meeting, I thought perhaps Sharif had come in order to use pressure from the United States to provide himself cover for ordering his military to defuse the conflict.
'China and the United States have ever more extensive common interests and we shoulder ever more important common responsibilities, ' Mr. Xi said in his opening remarks.
When asked about the meeting (by a journalist friend of mine), Cunhal said that he would confirm it took place only if Antunes didn’t deny it – if Antunes did deny it, then it never took place.
They will meet once per year in alternate capitals, and they look forward to welcoming the Chinese to the United States for the first round of the S&ED on July 27–28, 2009.
As he said at our first meeting in London, our relationship had started to drift, making it difficult to cooperate on issues of common interest to our people.
"We are prepared for dialogue with North Korea at any time and with an open mind," Lee Myung-bak said during a speech marking the anniversary of a 1919 anti-Japanese uprising.