Just a glossing over of we talked about human rights, something on a list of talking points simply won't cut it.

Conversations with President Obama must be very public.

Hu Jintao presides over a gulag state, clearly a dictatorship.

President Hu's secret police hunts down Christians, Uyghur Muslims, Falun Gong, and Tibetan Buddhists and beats them often to death.

There are 100 million missing girls in China.

President Hu is directly responsible for the systematic detention and torture of millions of peaceful Chinese, Tibetans, and Uyghurs.

The one-child-per-couple policy, which relies on forced abortion to achieve its goals.

These aren't nuances. These are profound issues that are raised here.

Numerous complicated and potentially volatile issues remain to be resolved.

I personally am concerned about the return of reportedly large numbers of southerners residing in the North to the South.

You must make that determination purely on the merits, not tilted to some other political considerations.