Former US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo stated that among the many dozens of world leaders he met when he was within the place he discovered Chinese language President Xi Jinping the “most disagreeable”. In his e book titled ‘By no means Give an Inch: Preventing for the America I Love,’ Mike Pompeo writes that he held a number of interactions with Xi Jinping and located him “dour” and a “quintessential Communist apparatchik”.

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Through the interactions Xi Jinping informed tales about Chinese language victimhood and talked about his “calls for to avenge grievances from lengthy earlier than any of us had been born”, Mike Pompeo famous.

“Personally, I believed Xi was dour. Whereas Putin could be humorous and mirthful, even whereas being evil, Xi was not so severe as dead-eyed. I by no means as soon as noticed an unforced smile,” Mike Pompeo writes within the e book.

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“I additionally discovered Xi a quintessential Communist apparatchik: heavy within the summary, gentle on the problems beneath dialogue, and all the time wanting to impose his views, even whereas he pretends to be listening to you. He match the psychological profile of an East German or Soviet Communist I got here to review throughout my Military days,” he added.

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“My China coverage advisor on the State Division, Miles Yu, later informed me that CCP leaders usually, and Basic Secretary Xi specifically, deploy overwrought erudition to play gullible American leaders,” he additional stated, including, “Of the handfuls of world leaders I met, he was among the many most disagreeable. How’s that for telling the laborious fact? Having now seen the regime personified on the highest stage, I used to be gripped by simply how completely different its leaders had been from the Chinese language folks.”