Huntsman in Beijing: He Meets with 'Old Counterpart'

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BEIJING -- Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr. kicked off his weeklong trade mission in the land known as the Middle Kingdom today with back-to- back meetings with U.S. and Chinese officials, including one of the toughest negotiators he's ever faced.

"Ma is my old counterpart when I was a trade negotiator," the governor said of the vice minister of China's Ministry of Commerce, Madame Ma Xiuhong. "She is very good, very smart and very savvy."

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Huntsman in Beijing: He Meets with 'Old Counterpart'

Huntsman told the Deseret Morning News shortly before the meeting at the Ministry of Commerce that he used to sit across the bargaining table from Ma as a U.S. trade representative in the early days of President Bush's administration.

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