I learned in the U.S. Army not to make fun of my fellow soldier's names. It is really a cruel form of humor. I just couldn't resist this Chinese-English pun.
The underlying question about Hu Jintao is of potentially extreme importance in world affairs. Hu Jintao is the General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party. That is the top position in China. General Secretary Hu is spending the current week in Tokyo with Japanese Prime Minister (top position in Japan) Fukuda Yasuo.
This could just be a chance to work on a few touchy issues like overlapping claims to a seabed with natural gas under it, the acceptance of pandas in Japan, food trade health problems, etc.
Or this could signal a major realignment of power in the world. Japan and China are each other's main trading and investment partner. There has been friction for nearly a century, sometimes open warfare. Now the greatest friction is between Japan and North Korea and North Korea is a client state of China's.
If Japan and China became close, or even allies, the world now and in the future would be radically different. These two countries together possess the population and technology to confront and possibly equal the United States.
Is that going to happen? Is that already happening? Am I in Tokyo during a week that will turn out to be of major historic importance?