Panetta Welcomes Chinese Vice President to Pentagon

By Lisa DanielAmerican Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, Feb. 15, 2012 ? Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta yesterday welcomed Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping to the Pentagon with full military honors for what was the first ceremony of its kind for a visiting vice president, Defense Department officials said.
Neither Panetta nor Xi spoke publicly at the ceremony, where they took the reviewing stand before formations of the four military services on the Pentagon’s River Terrace parade

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