But his hosts did not let him see the secret nerve centre of the Chinese armed forces, in the hills west of Beijing.
But Pentagon officials have never been allowed to visit the headquarters of the Chinese armed forces, an underground facility in the Fragrant Hills west of Beijing.
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Without fanfare (or media coverage) in the West, Beijing earlier this month dramatically cut the tax rebates that exporters get on more than 2, 200 products, including soap, plastics and glassware.
On May 12, 2008, Hu Shuli, the founding editor of the biweekly magazine Caijing, was hosting a ceremony for scholarship recipients at a hotel in the mountains west of Beijing.
To further build on booming U.S.-Chinese economic ties, East West has opened an office in Beijing.
Obviously, this was yet another clumsy attempt by Beijing to influence opinion in the west, and because they were not aware of the traditional tools of public opinion, they were doomed to fail.
For Beijing and its neighbors to the north and west, the dominant geopolitical fact is their 7, 000-km mutual border.
The group's political views are often anathema to Beijing - and getting more so as the West turns more interventionist (witness Kosovo).
During the build-up to the Olympic games in Beijing next month China has a particularly strong incentive to appear cooperative with the West on Sudan.
For the first time in years, Uighurs from the west of China, the traditional money-changers, have reappeared on the streets of Beijing, and people are eager to buy dollars from them.
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Warner also praised West Ham's support for hosting the 2015 World Athletics Championships at the stadium if London beats Beijing in the bidding to host the event.
In Sudan hundreds of thousands are raped, murdered, and forced from their villages as the West's efforts to improve the situation are undermined by unconditional support for the regime in Khartoum from Beijing and Moscow.
But officials are acutely aware that Tibet grips public attention in the West far more than China's connections with Sudan hitherto the main stalking horse of critics of Beijing's Olympics.
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