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Xi Jinping meets with 'old friend' Bill Gates in Beijing
France 24 ^
Posted on 06/16/2023 3:48:02 AM PDT by FarCenter
Beijing (AFP) – President Xi Jinping told his "old friend" Bill Gates on Friday that China had always placed its hopes in the American people, after the Microsoft co-founder's foundation pledged $50 million to help Chinese efforts to battle disease.
Gates -- one of the world's richest men -- is the latest in a string of Western business leaders to visit China since the country ended strict Covid controls that largely closed it off from the world for almost three years.
The visit is Gates' first to China in four years, and included a rare sit-down between the Chinese head of state and a foreign business leader.
"You are the first American friend I have met in Beijing this year," Xi told Gates in Beijing, according to the state-run People's Daily.
"We have always placed our hopes on the American people, and hoped for continued friendship between the peoples of the two countries," Xi added.
Gates, in turn, said he was "very honoured to have this chance to meet", according to a recording shared by state broadcaster CCTV.
"We've always had great conversations and we'll have a lot of important topics to discuss today," he said.
"I was very disappointed I couldn't come during these last four years, and so it's very exciting to be back."
A state media readout also quoted Gates as praising China's efforts in "tackling the Covid-19 pandemic, setting a good example for the world".
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posted on
06/16/2023 3:48:02 AM PDT
by
FarCenter
To: FarCenter
Two old Communist totalitarians with delusions of godhood.
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posted on
06/16/2023 3:52:43 AM PDT
by
fieldmarshaldj
(America Owes Anita Bryant An Enormous Apology)
To: FarCenter
Bill Gates gets to meet with the boss. Blinker goes there and he meets with the summer intern at their state department.
How humiliating is that?
To: FarCenter
Bill Gates is PURE, PURE EVIL!!! On a level of EVIL at George Soros, only in a different field!
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posted on
06/16/2023 4:00:22 AM PDT
by
Ann Archy
(Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
To: FarCenter
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posted on
06/16/2023 4:21:11 AM PDT
by
mewzilla
(We will never restore the republic if we don't first secure the ballot box.)
To: FarCenter
Xi says, “Okay, Bill. We’re fine with you helping to trim our population by 330 million—as long as you also trim the US (”New China”) population by an equal 330 million.”
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posted on
06/16/2023 8:22:32 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(NeverTrumpers are Republicans the same way Liz Cheney is a Republican.)
To: FarCenter
Microsoft co-founder’s foundation pledged $50 million to help Chinese efforts to battle disease.
America
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posted on
06/16/2023 9:09:42 AM PDT
by
Vaduz
(....)
To: FarCenter
Xi Jinping told his “old friend” Bill Gates that he was thanking him for helping with the Wuhan virus that killed hundreds of thousands of people and crippling many more and with the help of the “vaccines” perhaps millions of people and crippling the economies of the west.
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posted on
06/16/2023 9:20:54 PM PDT
by
minnesota_bound
(Need more money to buy everything now)
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