AdvertisementChina's Next Leader Has A Soft Spot For Iowa TownNovember 12, 2012Louisa LimfacebookEmailChina's vice president, Xi Jinping, who is poised to become the country's new leader, is widely traveled and stayed briefly in Muscatine, Iowa, in the 1980s. He returned again in February of this year and met some of the people he knew from his earlier visit. Xi, right, is shown greeting Muscatine resident Eleanor Dvorchak. (AP)