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China, wary of Arab Spring, hosts Egypt's Morsi

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China is hosting Egypt's newly elected president despite its uneasiness with the Arab Spring revolution that helped bring him to power, while the new leader seeks to shore up his country's flagging economy.

 

President Mohammed Morsi, an Islamist who took office in June as Egypt's first freely elected civilian president, was to be welcomed Tuesday at the Great Hall of the People at the start of a two-day trip. (AP)

 

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