Gates-Hu meeting is short but noteworthy
Seattle PI | at | by Mike
As first meetings go, it wasn't exactly private -- or long. But by all accounts, the world's richest man and the leader of the world's most populous nation got along just fine.
With more than 100 people looking on, including a phalanx of media from around the world, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates ushered Chinese President Hu Jintao into the Redmond company's main conference center Tuesday afternoon to begin what the company hopes will be a positive relationship between the men.
"Because you, Mr. Bill Gates, are a friend of China, I'm a friend of Microsoft," Hu said, according to an Associated Press pool report from their meeting. "Also, I am dealing with the operating system produced by Microsoft every day," he added, to laughter from those around him.