Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's visit comes amid a slowdown in the Chinese economy and an uptick in economic tensions between China and the U.S.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and U.S. Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner are in China this morning. They're supposed to be talking about issues like trade. But instead, everyone's focused on a blind Chinese dissident who took refuge at the U.S. embassy in Beijing and is now asking for asylum in the United States.