(Simple vanity) When Trump and Xi Jinping were walking alone & chatting, who was translating?

[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?

[mass55th]

What’s to understand? “No tickee, no laundree.”

[llevrok]

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

[Popman]

Xi speaks English.

Isn't that Engrish

[trisham]

Many asians speak english.

[Eddie01]

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.

[Eddie01]

We have a Chinese “Takee Outee” restaurant nearby. Too funny.

[jaz.357]

Babel fish.

[RoosterRedux]

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.

[Eddie01]

That was funny - thanks for the raugh.

[flaglady47]

That’s really funny, ROR.

[bobby.223]

Trumper: “With six they get Tomahawks!”

[sphinx]

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.

[onyx]

That was my impression, too.
Translators walking behind them.
Perhaps a special Secret Service agent speaks Chinese?
Probably more than one.

[clee1]

Bluetooth frequencies only travel 15 feet, and jammers are everywhere

[DesertRhino]

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.

[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........

[knarf]

Boy .... when Asians get out of shape ..... they get out of shape !

[trisham]

I don’t know. I lived in Japan many years ago and even then many of the Japanese spoke at least rudimentary english.

[trisham]

Agreed.

[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.