BREAKING NEWS: Obama Called Hu And Threw Geithner Under The China Bus. – China Business

www.chinalawblog.com — According to an undisclosed source close to Dan Harris, Obama rang up Hu Jintao this past weekend to set things right between the two of them after Obama's new Treasury Secretary Geithner called China a currency-manipulating whore (or something like that).

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