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(Simple vanity) When Trump and Xi Jinping were walking alone & chatting, who was translating?
Posted on 04/08/2017 1:54:13 PM PDT by RoosterRedux
When they were walking alone and chatting, they were responsive to each other's speech and seemed to be having a good time.
I don't think Xi Jinping speaks English and I don't think President Trump speaks Mandarin...so how did they understand each other?
Were they wearing mics and earphones?
TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: china; xijinping
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To: RoosterRedux
What’s to understand? No tickee, no laundree.
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posted on
04/08/2017 2:30:08 PM PDT
by
mass55th
(Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
To: RoosterRedux
Good Lord. Iowa?Yup. He heard it was a red state. But seriously,
http://www.businessinsider.com/us-host-never-thought-xi-was-a-leader-2015-4
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posted on
04/08/2017 2:30:12 PM PDT
by
llevrok
(A group of baboons is called a "congress." Just sayin' .....)
To: Eddie01
Xi speaks English.Isn't that Engrish
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posted on
04/08/2017 2:31:48 PM PDT
by
Popman
To: RoosterRedux
Many asians speak english.
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posted on
04/08/2017 2:32:23 PM PDT
by
trisham
(Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
To: Popman
I lived and worked in China for three years and saw the worst translations up on business signs you can imagine.
One of the aspects that made the stay enjoyable.
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posted on
04/08/2017 2:34:25 PM PDT
by
Eddie01
(Is this the old loft with the paint pealng off it?)
To: mass55th
We have a Chinese “Takee Outee” restaurant nearby. Too funny.
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posted on
04/08/2017 2:35:28 PM PDT
by
Eddie01
(Is this the old loft with the paint pealng off it?)
To: RoosterRedux
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posted on
04/08/2017 2:35:34 PM PDT
by
jaz.357
(Blithering Intellectual.)
To: trisham
True.
But from what I have read, Xi can read some English but he is not fluent. And cannot speak it.
Of course, that info may be incorrect.
To: Ronald_Magnus
That was funny - thanks for the raugh.
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posted on
04/08/2017 2:37:13 PM PDT
by
Eddie01
(Is this the old loft with the paint pealng off it?)
To: Ronald_Magnus
That’s really funny, ROR.
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posted on
04/08/2017 2:38:45 PM PDT
by
flaglady47
(TRUMP 45. How sweet it is. )
To: trisham
Trumper: “With six they get Tomahawks!”
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posted on
04/08/2017 2:40:41 PM PDT
by
bobby.223
(Retired up in the snowy mountains of the American Redoubt and it's a great life!)
To: pepsi_junkie
Xi was part of a Chinese agricultural delegation that spent a couple of weeks in Iowa back in the 1980's. He was a relatively low level guy back then. He stayed with a local family, so I've always assumed he spoke enough Iowan to get by. Whether he's fluent in English is another question.
The Iowa connection apparently means a lot to Xi. If it was his first trip out of China, it would probably have made a major impact, especially 30 years ago. And it is probably a good thing that his first exposure to the U.S. was the heartland, not New York, DC, or some crazy place in California.
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posted on
04/08/2017 2:42:59 PM PDT
by
sphinx
To: RoosterRedux
That was my impression, too.
Translators walking behind them.
Perhaps a special Secret Service agent speaks Chinese?
Probably more than one.
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posted on
04/08/2017 2:58:17 PM PDT
by
onyx
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra
Bluetooth frequencies only travel 15 feet, and jammers are everywhere
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posted on
04/08/2017 3:01:07 PM PDT
by
clee1
(We use 43 muscles to frown, 17 to smile, and 2 to pull a trigger. I'm lazy and I'm tired of smiling.)
To: RoosterRedux
It could also be more “cult of the presidency” staged crap. They do a lot of that.
Walk together for the photographers. Stand by the window posing as though they were lost in their thoughts. Dramatically posed in a hundred ways. Most of what we see is Hollywood. He’s probably saying something in Chinese, and Trump nods and answers in English. They both know the game.
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posted on
04/08/2017 3:03:28 PM PDT
by
DesertRhino
(Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up.)
To: RoosterRedux
English is a second language in both China and Japan.......To their credit, the highly educated from those countries speak better English than many in our failing high schools........
To: RoosterRedux
Boy .... when Asians get out of shape ..... they get out of shape !
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posted on
04/08/2017 3:03:56 PM PDT
by
knarf
(I say things that are true, I have no proof, but they're true.)
To: RoosterRedux
I don’t know. I lived in Japan many years ago and even then many of the Japanese spoke at least rudimentary english.
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posted on
04/08/2017 3:07:52 PM PDT
by
trisham
(Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
To: Hot Tabasco
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posted on
04/08/2017 3:09:15 PM PDT
by
trisham
(Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
To: RoosterRedux
In 1987 I spent two weeks on business in Taipei. In the hotel where I stayed a French contingent came and stayed in the same hotel. The French did not speak either Cantonese or Mandarin. The Taiwanese did not speak French. They had to communicate in English.
I loved it.
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posted on
04/08/2017 3:23:19 PM PDT
by
GGpaX4DumpedTea
((I am a Tea Party descendant...steeped in the Constitutional Republic given to us by the Founders))
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