Arnold Schwarzenegger Watch: Coming Home From China

California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger samples a glass of Gallo wine from California, during a tour of a market in Hong Kong, Saturday Nov. 19, 2005. After the tour of the market the governor spoke at a rally to promote California’s products to conclude his six-day trade mission to Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong.

The ASSociated Press has Schwarzenegger Heads Home From China Trip

For Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, whose much-vaunted “year of reform” agenda was soundly beaten in a special election less than two weeks ago, a three-city trade mission in the Far East could not have come at a better time.

In his six days here, Schwarzenegger has been mobbed by paparazzi, strolled the red carpet at the Shanghai premiere of “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire” and was quizzed by adoring students at China’s most elite university on his vision of the California dream.

Business leaders have gushed about the celebrity governor’s ability to open doors in China’s expanding global marketplace. Front page glamour shots of Schwarzenegger and his wife, Maria Shriver, have been splashed across local English-language newspapers. And a competing trade mission headed by another Republican governor, Minnesota’s Tim Pawlenty, has been all but eclipsed by Schwarzenegger’s star wattage.

But political experts agree the governor’s road to political redemption runs through California, not China.

Arnold’s political rehabilitation is off to a good start.

Next on the agenda will be answering questions regarding his “rebuild” agenda for California infrastructure.

California economic projections have been good so partisan budgetary battles will take a backseat to political posturing of the two major Democrat candidates for Governor, Angelides and Westly.

Schwarzenegger has acknowlewdged his miscalculations of the special eldection, and his war with the California Nurses Assocaition is over…..

Stay tuned……..