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Byline: Melinda Liu (With Richard Ernsberger Jr. in New York, Joseph Contreras in Miami, Stephen Glain in Washington, Joe Cochrane in Burma, and Daniel Pepper and Alexandra Polier in Sudan)
This week's long-awaited summit between Hu Jintao and George W. Bush in Washington has sent diplomatic sherpas in both countries into overdrive. One last-minute development was a visit to Beijing last week by Washington's assistant secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs, Thomas A. Shannon Jr. His was the first-ever China trip by the State Department's point man on Latin America. And his message to Beijing was blunt: tread carefully in America's backyard, where China ...