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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?


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KEYWORDS: china; xijinping
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To: flaglady47

I raff and raff!


61 posted on 04/08/2017 3:34:39 PM PDT by BTCM (Death and destruction is the only treaty Muslims comprehend.)
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To: sphinx
I've always assumed he spoke enough Iowan to get by. Whether he's fluent in English is another question.

I am a native Iowan. I speak English. Who the hell are you? Some Egyptian monolith? Hablo Espanol?

62 posted on 04/08/2017 3:39:44 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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To: ifinnegan

Oh my, aren’t those men their respective aides carrying their nuclear footballs?


63 posted on 04/08/2017 3:44:32 PM PDT by Mare
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To: GGpaX4DumpedTea

:)


64 posted on 04/08/2017 3:53:18 PM PDT by sphinx
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To: Mare

Maybe.


65 posted on 04/08/2017 4:01:12 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: RoosterRedux

As I mentioned once before, I’m pretty well traveled (been to 39 countries) and I can you from my experiences that MANY MANY people around the world speak English. I was in Vietnam a month ago and was surprised to be able to get by in English. Most Europeans can speak at least some English, except the Italians and possibly French. Most People in central and South America Don’t speak English but since I speak Spanish it doesn’t matter. Most Educated people speak English in Asia except in Japan. They’re kinda Xenophobic there. And of course almost everyone speaks English in the former British colonies around the globe. And many educated people in the Middle East also speak English.


66 posted on 04/08/2017 4:18:06 PM PDT by airplaneguy
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To: RoosterRedux

They used Babel fish


67 posted on 04/08/2017 4:19:18 PM PDT by Delmarksman (Pro 2A Anglican American (Ford and Chevy kill more people than guns do, lets ban them))
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To: Eddie01
He does indeed speak Chinese, and Russian, and hundreds of languages.

While officially he only speaks English...that is just a pretense to cover his real origins; for back in Willy Wonka's chocolate factory he and his shorter cousins had all eaten a special magical candy which allows them to converse (and sing cute songs with moral lessons) in any language. He alone later experimented with another magical candy that makes Oompa Loompas taller and more business savvy. Sadly, too business savvy for Mr. Wonka's liking...

68 posted on 04/08/2017 4:50:46 PM PDT by AndyTheBear
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To: Hot Tabasco
Maybe true or not, but I've heard that the largest English speaking country is China.

They learn it in school.

And with 1.5 billion people, it would be easy enough to have that distinction.

If you want to get anywhere in this world professionally, you need English.

In the medical profession, I hear a lot of complaints that patients cannot understand their foreign trained MDs, as their accents are very thick.

Sure there are plenty of Italian and French businesses out there, but you are really limited if you want go international.

If I were to learn a useful for business language, I'd study Mandarin.

69 posted on 04/08/2017 5:25:26 PM PDT by boop ("We don't feel like we are doing anything illegal"- Democrat credo)
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To: V K Lee

Or maybe President Trump stayed at a Holiday Inn recently.


70 posted on 04/08/2017 5:34:05 PM PDT by armourenthusiast (Trumperific)
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To: armourenthusiast

:>)


71 posted on 04/08/2017 6:45:44 PM PDT by V K Lee (Amateurs built the ark; Professionals - the Titanic)
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To: sphinx

Former Iowa Governor Terry Branstad was one of the US counterparts to Xi during that Iowa trip and apparantly they became friendly and have maintained that through the years. Xi is not running China and Branstad was just nominated by Trump to be Ambassador to China but he has yet to be confirmed.


72 posted on 04/08/2017 9:40:28 PM PDT by pepsi_junkie
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To: pepsi_junkie

>>>Sorry, not Oklahoma. Iowa<<<

If Yu build it, Yi will come.


73 posted on 04/08/2017 9:48:34 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (The way Liberals carry on about Deportation, you would think "Mexico" was Spanish for "Auschwitz".)
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To: llevrok

with ketchup


74 posted on 04/09/2017 2:20:13 AM PDT by mikmaq
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To: RoosterRedux

The clip of the two walking and chatting might have been pure PR fluff. Image is everything, after all.


75 posted on 04/09/2017 3:57:23 AM PDT by DNME (The only solution to a BAD guy with a gun is a GOOD guy with a gun.)
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To: RoosterRedux

Xi is like Merkel. Speaks English. Chooses not to. He may not be fluent and you don’t want to make an innocent language mistake speaking to a world leader, etc.


76 posted on 04/09/2017 6:34:37 AM PDT by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (Trump: What to do now I can't repeal Obamacare? I know, lets start a war with Russia!)
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