MSNBC The Last Word With Lawrence ODonnell March 19, 2022 02:18:00
It's sometimes very frustrating doing diplomacy with the chinese, because they're very very stringent. there's the principle and each person as a translator. whenever i was talking with a chinese principal i noticed that the translator had the text in his or her hand. so the translator was not actually translating with the chinese official was saying. the translator had the script right there. it's very, very scripted. xi jinping does not like to engage. i was into meetings with xi jinping in beijing when i was in the states. both times he used proverbs over and over. today it was reported tha...