Davenport Mayor Bill Gluba walked into the building Wednesday afternoon with a handful of paperwork encouraging an expanded partnership between the Quad-Cities and China.
DES MOINES - Iowa was in the international spotlight Wednesday as the presumed future leader of China rekindled old friendships and, Iowa officials hope, made new ones too.
Melissa and Bill Snydacker weren't among the few invited to meet Xi Jinping at their neighbors' home in Muscatine.
Feb. 15, 2012 REPORT: MUSCATINE - In the warmth of Roger and Sarah Lande's living room, Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping sat on a sofa between the couple on Wednesday, surrounded by the "old friends" he never forgot from his 1985 trip here.
Weizhi Feng got closer to China’s Vice President Xi Jinping in Muscatine than he ever would have in China. And they’re from the same hometown.
Here’s the text of Gov. Terry Branstad’s toast to Vice President Xi Jinping on Wednesday in Des Moines:
MUSCATINE — A secluded block near the city’s downtown became the scene of a loud protest over Chinese policies, particularly toward Tibet, as demonstrators shouted over one another a block from where Vice President Xi Jinping met with Iowans he befriended here 27 years ago.
DES MOINES — Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping and his entourage landed at the Iowa Air National Guard airstrip in Des Moines’ southwest side at 7:27 p.m.
DES MOINES — Chinese buyers made commitments Wednesday to purchase $4.3 billion worth of U.S. soybeans in the upcoming market year.
MUSCATINE — Walking around downtown Muscatine with a camera in his hand, a native of China — wearing a stocking cap on his head — stopped to snap a photo of a building.
DES MOINES —– Hundreds of protesters hoisted banners and carried coffins as they marched on the Capitol grounds Wednesday, chanting for a free Tibet and calling the guest of honor at a state dinner Wednesday night a “tyrant.”
MUSCATINE — A secluded block here became the scene of a loud protest over Chinese policies, particularly toward Tibet, as demonstrators shouted over one another a block from where China Vice President Xi Jinping arrived this afternoon.
DES MOINES — Tonight’s state dinner at the Capitol with Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping presents an opportunity for Iowa to enhance an already-healthy relationship with the Asian nation, according to Gov. Terry Branstad.
MUSCATINE — When Zhu Yunxiang and his wife, Lijuan Cai, of Fairfield, spotted Thomas and Eleanor Dvorchak Wednesday over the lunch hour, they had one earnest request of the former Muscatine residents who were about to see China’s vice president, Xi Jinping, for the first time in 27 years.
UPDATE: The welcome mat is out, security is in place and the town is abuzz as the Lande family of Muscatine, Iowa, awaits a vist from China Vice President Xi Jinping.
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Following today’s ceremonial events in Muscatine and Des Moines, visiting Chinese officials will get down to work Thursday in Des Moines before continuing their U.S. visit by flying to Los Angeles.
The Iowa governor’s office issued a news release this morning detailing the menu for tonight’s state dinner at the Iowa Capitol. Here is the news release:
MUSCATINE — For Muscatine’s Barbara Woodstra — one of the people China’s Vice President Xi Jinping calls the “old friends” — today’s high-level Muscatine visit is the culmination of 60 years of a personal relationship she has enjoyed with the world’s largest nation.
DES MOINES — DuPont says it plans to build a new plant research facility in China for its Pioneer Hi-Bred seed business.
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama assured China’s heir apparent to leadership that the United States welcomes Beijing’s rise in the world, saying Tuesday that strong cooperation between the two powers is good for the rest of the world.
DES MOINES, Iowa -- Iowa's largest universities are in the midst of an enrollment surge of Chinese students, but unlike previous generations of immigrants from China, many plan to return to their homeland after getting an American education and a job for a few years.
When China Vice President Xi Jinping travels to Iowa, he’ll see more than Iowa nice.
DES MOINES — Gov. Terry Branstad said Monday Iowa officials hope to showcase some of the best food and hospitality that the state has to offer when they host Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping and a delegation of nearly 170 Cabinet-levels officials, business leaders and other dignitaries sche…