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U.S. NEWSWednesday 23 September
Clean tech a priority issue as Chinese president lands in US
GENE JOHNSON Wendy Hu, a native of from the religious group Chang, 28, who traveled gases, so improving coop-
PHUONG LE Guangdong Province who Falun Gong demonstrated to Seattle with other Falun eration and collaboration
Associated Press has lived in Seattle for 20 outside the federal court- Gong practitioners for the is really a necessity,” said
SEATTLE (AP) — Chinese years, brought her 11-year- house, holding banners protest. Brian Young, Washington
President Xi Jinping arrived Talks in Seattle among a state director of econom-
in Washington state Tues- Chinese President Xi Jinping, left, and his wife Peng Liyuan wave handful of U.S. governors ic development for the
day for a visit to the U.S. upon arrival Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2015, at Boeing Field in Everett, and six of their Chinese clean technology sector.
that will include talks on Wash. Xi is spending three days in Seattle before traveling to counterparts will include “Second, it’s a huge busi-
how U.S. and Chinese ex- Washington, D.C., for a White House state dinner on Friday. improving energy efficien- ness opportunity. Both sides
perts and businesses can cy in buildings, modernizing recognize the opportunity
collaborate on nuclear en- (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson) electrical grids and com- for job creation.”
ergy, smarter electricity use mercializing renewable en- U.S.-China cooperation on
and other clean technolo- old daughter, Anna Ni. and banging drums as the ergy. The governors were climate-change has been
gies. “China and the U.S. are motorcade passed. expected to meet privately a warm and fuzzy point of
The visit comes a year af- good partners now, with Falun Gong says its mem- with Xi later in the day. relations between the su-
ter Xi and President Barack Boeing and Microsoft,” Hu bers are persecuted in Chi- The University of Washing- perpowers.
Obama announced their said. “I love both coun- na. ton and Tsinghua University In November 2009, Obama
nations would cooperate tries.” “It’s about compassion and in Beijing were expected to and then-President Hu Jin-
to fight climate change. Hundreds of protesters tolerance,” said Sabrina sign an agreement to col- tao formalized a renew-
Xi’s plane landed at Paine laborate on research re- able energy partnership,
Field in Everett, where he lated to clean tech. In ad- including the establishment
was welcomed by a group dition, TerraPower Inc., an of clean-energy research
that included Washington energy company founded centers focused on electric
Gov. Jay Inslee, former by Bill Gates, will be enter- vehicles, cleaner coal and
Washington governor and ing an agreement with Chi- water energy programs.
U.S. ambassador to China na National Nuclear Corp. Last November, Obama
Gary Locke and Seattle to work together on next- and Xi announced that the
Mayor Ed Murray. generation nuclear power countries would work to-
In Seattle, supporters plant technology. gether on climate change,
turned out to welcome the “These are the largest with China announcing it
Chinese president and oth- economies in the world, would try to cap its green-
er dignitaries traveling in his and we’re the biggest house gas emissions by
motorcade. emitters of greenhouse 2030, or sooner if possible.q
