China Confidential‘s Confidential Reporter starts off a series of posts this week looking at the Chinese government's presence abroad with ‘China Spins a Tale of Two Washingtons‘.

“In preparation for Chinese President Hu Jintao's visit to the United States, his propaganda meisters have been playing up Beijing's notion of dramatic differences between America's two Washingtons: the capital district, where the world's most powerful man, US President George Bush, lives and works, and the Pacific Northwest state that is home to the world's wealthiest man, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates, with whom Hu will meet before his White House summit with Bush,” the blogger begins.