Insert sth. declared. Is this "fix usage", and what does that mean?

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WASHINGTON - The Chinese have striven to lend this week's state visit by President Hu Jintao the aura of a fresh start, from feel-good displays of friendly Chinese in Times Square to a Washington newspaper insert that declared on Wednesday that his meeting with President Obama could open a new chapter in a relationship between the world's two economic giants that had been troubled.

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Silencio Tarsier · Answer

My question is what does insert that declared mean in this sentence?

a Washington newspaper insert that declared on Wednesday that his meeting withhttp://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/o/barack_obama/index.html?inline=nyt-per could open a new chapter in a relationship between the world’s two economic giants that had been troubled.

Clive · Answer

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WASHINGTON - The Chinese have striven to lend this week's state visit by President Hu Jintao the aura of a fresh start, from feel-good displays of friendly Chinese in Times Square to a Washington newspaper insert that declared on Wednesday that his meeting with President Obama could open a new chapter in a relationship between the world's two economic giants that had been troubled.

A newspaper insert is a special section that is inserted into a newpaper, usually in the form of one or more extra pages. It sounds like a Washington newpaper added such an insert because of Peresident Hu's visit. The inseert declared (ie included a statement) that on Wednesday . . . . '

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