mr. hu jintao, visited america. the and the vice president of this country, mr.ina in august. this was a very important visit. there is another next week. we saw last year a record growth of our people to people exchange. according to that temporary statistic, in the first nine months of last year, 1.0 7 million chinese tourists visited this country, the biggest increase of 27.7%. more than 2 million american people visited china, which means on average, every day, more than 9000 people are crossing the pacific. nowadays, about 160,000 chinese students are studying here. you have more than 20,000 american boys and girls studying in china. we saw a new record of our bilateral trade. last year, america experted $167.70 billion to china, up by 19%. that makes china and america each other's second-largest trading partner. the state of california placed a large role in this relationship with china. the state of california experted $10.50 million to china, an increase of 19%, making california the largest exporter to china among all 50 states in this country. last year

mr. hu jintao, visited america. the and the vice president of this

mr. hu jintao, minister of the republic of france. [speaking in native tongue] >> translator: mr. president, we are meeting today so that the security council should take up this responsibility as a people that is suffering in a region where peace is threatened by the brutal russian of the regime. the silence of our council formats is no longer accept the will. it folds to the arab league to recover itself from solemnly on the council to live up to the nation vested upon it by the united nations coming today to the people of the region we wish peace and respect. the arab league has asked to meet the situation, the dispatch of the definition transition i wish to commend the courageous commitment of the conflict and i welcome the president and secretary general and prime minister of qatar have not the addresses. i also commend the kingdom of sirocco to bring to us fully supported by france. i wish the commander to connect the arab league. i am well aware that decisions on the situation in syria are particularly difficult to take an implement if only because of their geographical opp

mr. hu jintao, minister of the republic of france. [speaking in native tongue] >> translator: mr.nt, we are meeting today so that the security council should take up this responsibility as a people that is suffering in a region where peace is threatened by the brutal russian of the regime. the silence of our council formats is no longer accept the will. it folds to the arab leagu to recover itself from solemnly on the uncil to live up to the nation vested upon it by the united nations coming today to the people of the region we wish peace and respect. the arab league has asked to meet the situation, the dispatch of the definition transition i wish to commend the courageous commitment of the conflict and i welcome the president and secretary general and prime minister of qatar have not the addresses. i also commend the kingdom of sirocco to bring to us fully supported by france. i wish the commander to connect the arab league. i am well aware that decisions on the situation in syria are particularly difficult to take an implement if only because of their geographical opportunity to

mr. hu jintao, minister of the republic of france. [speaking in native tongue] >> translator: mr.esident, we are meeting today so that the security council should take up this responsibility as a people that is suffering in a region where peace is threatened by the brutal russian of the regime. the silence of our council formats is no longer accept the will. it folds to the arab league to recover itself from solemnly on the council to live up to the nation vested upon it by the united nations coming today to the people of the region we wish peace and respect. the arab league has asked to meet the situation, the dispatch of the definition transition i wish to commend the courageous commitment of the conflict and i welcome the president and secretary general and prime minister of qatar have not the addresses. i also commend the kingdom of sirocco to bring to us fully supported by france. i wish the commander to connect the arab league. i am well aware that decisions on the situation in syria are particularly difficult to take an implement if only because of their geographical opport

ceremonial event like that, but certainly i have seen hu jintao in a similar setting and hu jintao seemed a more stolid expressionless character. mrut his adventures in iowa, what that meant to him. what was striking is that just before he spoke, vice president biden gave what was a very, very tough toast by the standards of these kind of events talking about currency valuation, human rights, and all the rest. so that made for a different sort of diplomatic encounter than normal. >> people who were there tell me it seemed almost rude what biden did in the context of a ceremonial state occasion. one of the observers said we seemed like the yahoos and they seemed like the sophisticated war power kind of -- >> it certainly was startling to me. we've all seen events like this before, and usually there's a kind of quality in the greetings. our two nations are celebrating their 40th anniversary together. and vice president biden said all those things and he said turning now to our areas of disagreement and went through a tough laundry list. one doesn't know whether this was purely for domestic u.s. consumption or it was what they've bee

hu jintao and the premier wen jiabao. >> we will receive those articles. >> on the congressional record. >> thank you. >> good afternoon mr. chairman and mr. co-chairman and thank you for the opportunity to speak with all of you today. i want to begin by thanking the congressional executive commission on china and all the members and staff today for the fabulous work that you're doing on behalf of the united states. it is real service to our country to have such scrutiny of the chinese government's human rights record. as international pro bono legal counsel to imprisoned chinese lawyer, i want to provide you with a brief overview of his case and my explanation as to why his continued detention violates both chinese and international law. i will also rx on why although mr. gau is only one of chinese prisoners of conscious, his case is a bellweather that deserves especially close attention. gau was a prominent chinese lawyer who ran afoul of the government after he took on politically sensitive cases, particularly those of religious minority groups. in 2005 the government shut down his law firm. in august of 2006 the autho

hu jintao in 2013. today's meeting comes less than a month since mr. obama had some tough words for china on trade. he is forming a new agency to crack down on allegedly unfair trade practices. >>> president obama has rolled out his 2013 budget proposal. here's a sign how hard it would be to push through. boxes of the document got stuck in the door when they were being delivered to the house of representatives. this $3.8 trillion plan includes $350 billion in order to stimulate job growth. here to explain some of the details is jill schlesinger, editor at large for cbsmoneywatch.com. what's the difference between the deficit and the national debt? >> the deficit is what you take in and spend. look your family's annual budget. like the deficit for fiscal year 2012 that ends on september 30 is expected to be $1.33 trillion. in the president's plan that deficit is expected to drop but it's still high, $901 billion. now, the national debt, that's the total amount that we borrow year after year. it's like your outstanding credit card balance. the national debt stands at $15.3 trillion. >> that's unbelie

hu jintao next year. the meeting is less than a month since mr. obama had harsh words on china and trade. he is form a new agency now to crack down on unfair trade practices with that country. >>> weather on this valentine's day. lawrence? >> all right. chilly around the bay area. patchy fog in the valleys, live look now into pleasanton. you can see some of the patchy fog early on this morning. but what a day it's going to be. we have plenty of sunshine coming our way. should be a great day. and it will be dry all day long. we have just a break from the stormy weather at least for the better part of today so a cool start to the day with patchy fog early on. warmer by the afternoon. watch out for that high surf especially north of the golden gate bridge. we have a high surf advisory and 12 to 14 breakers out there so you're going to want to watch out for that and rain returning tonight into tomorrow morning. but today, kind of seasonal outside. not bad as we are getting a break from the storm system but this guy is going to drop in late tonight early tomorrow morning bringing with it more

mr. hu jintao, visited america. the and the vice president of this country, mr.ina in august. this was a very important visit. there is another next week. we saw last year a record growth of our people to people exchange. according to that temporary statistic, in the first nine months of last year, 1.0 7 million chinese tourists visited this country, the biggest increase of 27.7%. more than 2 million american people visited china, which means on average, every day, more than 9000 people are crossing the pacific. nowadays, about 160,000 chinese students are studying here. you have more than 20,000 american boys and girls studying in china. we saw a new record of our bilateral trade. bilateral trade. last year, america experted