Reuters
Five Minutes of Brotherly Love with Obama
U.S. President Barack Obama took time out of his busy diplomatic schedule in China to meet with his half-brother,who lives in the southern part of the country —but only for five minutes.
Obama had the brief meeting with Mark Okoth Obama Ndesandjo,who had the same,late,father as the U.S. president,on Monday evening in Beijing,a White House official said.
Ndesandjo has kept a low public profile since reports surfaced last year that he was living and working in the southern Chinese capitalist and manufacturing haven of Shenzhen,around an hour’s train ride from Hong Kong.
He made a rare public appearance earlier this month in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou,to launch a novel he said drew on his painful childhood under an abusive father.