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Photo of bag-carrying ambassador [Locke] charms China
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| Contributor | Miro |
| Last Edited | Scott³ Aug 17, 2011 10:25am |
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| Author | Associated Press |
| Media | Website - Yahoo News |
| News Date | Wednesday, August 17, 2011 03:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | SEATTLE (AP) — A photo of the new U.S. ambassador to China carrying his own backpack and ordering his own coffee at an airport has charmed Chinese citizens not used to such frugality from their officials.
ZhaoHui Tang, a businessman from Bellevue, Washington, snapped the photo Friday on his iPhone when he spotted Gary Locke at the counter of an airport Starbucks. Locke is the first Chinese-American ambassador to China and a former governor of Washington state.
Tang uploaded the photo to the Chinese social media network Sina Weibo because he thought it was cool to run into the new ambassador at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport.
He didn't expect it to generate 40,000 reposts and thousands of comments.
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