🤩 Xi’s Washington schedule included five hours away from Trump

🔴 Summit planners scheduled roughly five hours of downtime in the Chinese president’s agenda during his whirlwind September 23-25 Washington trip.

🔴 Visit planning insiders told WSJ the Chinese first couple was granted a private room in the West Wing to relax between events, and that the Chinese side turned down plans for a working lunch with Trump on the second day of the visit.

🔴 WSJ’s sources and select Pekingologists suggested the downtime, which followed the ~14-hour flight the Chinese delegation had to make before reaching Washington, may have had something to do with the Chinese leader’s declining physical health.

🔴 But the top-rated comment from readers suggested the “rest breaks were needed to give Xi Jinping mental relief from listening” to his US counterpart’s “insane, incoherent and egomaniacal ramblings.”

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