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Obama’s style in China

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President Barack Obama has told students in Shanghai that certain freedoms were universal – and not just limited to Americans. It’s not what the Chinese are used to seeing or hearing from their own president, Hu Jintao. Our Asia correspondent Mary Kay Magistad looks at the contrasting personal and oratory styles of Hu and Obama.