[Hot Tabasco]

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........

[GGpaX4DumpedTea]

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.

[Delmarksman]

They used Babel fish

[DNME]

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

[Freedom_Is_Not_Free]

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.