Obama plates on sale in Beijing

Two Chinese vendors show off their U.S. President Barack Obama commemorative plates on sale at an outdoor market in Beijing April 10, 2009. In China, ObamaÕs victory has attracted particular curiosity because his emergence is such a thoroughly un-Chinese phenomenon. Political prodigies are rare in a nation that grooms top leaders through decades of CommunistParty vetting and pageantry. (UPI Photo/Stephen Shaver)