Deletion of 2009 Barack Obama visit to China (2nd nomination)

Comment: for the Obama article and '''Delete''' for the Rudd one. Presidential visits, especially US presidents' visit to China, is almost automatically notable, and it gets extensive media coverage. Comparing the Rudd article with it is quite |POINTy
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Do not disrupt Wikipedia to illustrate a point (WP:POINT)

Comment: This AFD caught my eye because there are 3 consecutive speedy comments, which one can see very easily even if one is scrolling the page at a very high rate of speed.  Furthermore, the AFD covers a new Wikipedia guideline that I participated in discussion.  The speedy comments may be well intentioned but speedy may violating  reason 7
Stance: comment
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion (WP:NOTCSD)

Comment: into appropriate articles on the foreign policy or foreign visits by both people. The both seem to run into problems with  in that the coverage doesn't seem to have much duration and isn't likely to have lasting notability. For an example of a visit to a foreign country that meets these criteria, see 1972 Nixon visit to China. Individual speeches by heads of state (except perhaps certain annual speeches, like State of the Union, or historically notable ones) should be merged, and the same goes for visits to foreign countries that have no persistent coverage. The nomination may be somewhat POINTy, but there's still a reason to merge both
Stance: merge
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:EVENT)