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Breaking With Precedent, Trump Refuses Media Questions in China
by ADAM EDELMAN and ALI VITALI
President Donald Trump refused to take questions during a joint appearance with Chinese President Xi Jinping, breaking with a precedent set by the past three U.S. leaders to push back against China's tight control over the media.
After a day of meetings, Trump and Xi gave joint remarks in Beijing's Tiananmen Square Thursday but the two leaders exited without taking questions.
Trumps refusal to answer questions from the media in China marked a break from examples set by former Presidents Barack Obama, George W. Bush and Bill Clinton. All three took at least one question during appearances with their Chinese counterparts, as part of an effort to exert pressure on China's government to allow exchanges with reporters.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/breaking-precedent-trump-refuses-media-questions-china-n819366
Endorsement of authoritarianism.
What else would one expect?
underpants
(183,043 posts)HipChick
(25,485 posts)UTUSN
(70,793 posts)I disagree that he's avoiding specific questions and topics: 1) He's ignorant about the point American real presidents were making when they forced the Chinese to act out free press, but most of all 2) he *IS* an authoritarian.
orangecrush
(19,666 posts)I rec your post!