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Byline: Jim Landers

Nov. 22--WASHINGTON -- The weekend summit of Asia-Pacific leaders in Chile gave South Americans a look at President Bush and China's President Hu Jintao, two world leaders with different world outlooks.

They preferred the Chinese guy.

Mr. Bush went to Chile and Colombia to stress the importance of expanding

trade, but with a heavy security agenda involving the war on terrorism, North Korea's nuclear program and Colombia's drug war.

Mr. Hu spent the week in Brazil, Argentina, Chile and Cuba promising huge investments in energy and other natural resources, and talking up "a new international political and economic order" favoring the developing countries.

"From the Latin point of...

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