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Washington (CNN) — President Obama met with fellow Nobel Prize winner the Dalai Lama at the White House on Thursday, amid concerns from China over the visit.

Because of the diplomatic sensitivities over the tension between China and the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader, every aspect has been choreographed and worked out in advance. For one, the president met with the Dalai Lama in the Map Room, which is part of the residence at the White House, and not in the Oval Office.

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Washington (CNN) — Overriding objections from China, the Obama administration unveiled a $6.4 billion arms deal with Taiwan on Friday — including about $2.85 billion in missiles.

The sale includes 60 Black Hawk helicopters (totaling $3.1 billion), 114 advanced Patriot air defense missiles; a pair of Osprey mine-hunting ships; and dozens of advanced communications systems.

China has complained to the United States about the sale of Patriot missiles and other weapons to Taiwan, which neither Beijing nor Washington recognize as a sovereign nation.

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BEIJING – President Barack Obama and Chinese President Hu Jintao emerged from hours of intense talks Tuesday determined to marshal their combined clout on crucial issues, but still showing divisions over economic, security and human rights issues that have long bedeviled the two powers.

“The relationship between our two nations goes far beyond any single issue,” Obama said in a joint appearance with Hu that followed about 2 1/2 hours of formal, closed-door conversations.

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Mayor Ray Nagin, who traveled to China on an economic development trip, flew on a plane that carried a passenger being treated for symptoms suspected to be from the virus, commonly known as the swine flu virus, the mayor’s office said in a statement.

Nagin, his wife and a member of his security detail have been quarantined in Shanghai, China, though all three are symptom free, the statement said.

“The mayor is being treated with utmost courtesy by Chinese officials,” the statement said.

Ceeon Quiett, the mayor’s director of communications, told CNN that Nagin had been sitting beside a passenger who “exhibited the symptoms of H1N1,” but Nagin showed no signs of illness.

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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton spoke Monday with the Russian and Chinese foreign ministers, a department spokesman said, as the U.N. Security Council debates a tough resolution condemning North Korea’s latest missile and nuclear tests.

“I think it’s very clear that we are all on the same page with regard to the need to take very strong measures against North Korea,” deputy spokesman Robert Wood said. “They’re going to continue with our discussions on coming up with a strong resolution that responds to the North’s violation of its international obligations.”

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LONDON – Stepping onto the world stage for the first time in his two-month presidency, Barack Obama is holding face-to-face talks with the leaders of the two nations — Russia and China — most aggressively challenging the U.S. position atop the global order.

But first up for Obama was a sit-down with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, the host of the London summit of the world’s top 20 economies. The U.S. president and first lady Michelle Obama arrived Wednesday morning at 10 Downing Street, where Brown and his wife, Sarah, greeted them and the four smiled broadly.