Mike Pompeo says Xi Jinping 'most unpleasant' leader he met as US Secretary
Hindustan TimesFormer US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said that among the dozens of world leaders he met when he was in the position he found Chinese President Xi Jinping the "most unpleasant". In his book titled 'Never Give an Inch: Fighting for the America I Love,' Mike Pompeo writes that he held multiple interactions with Xi Jinping and found him "dour" and a "quintessential Communist apparatchik". During the interactions Xi Jinping told stories about Chinese victimhood and talked about his "demands to avenge grievances from long before any of us were born”, Mike Pompeo noted. “My China policy advisor at the State Department, Miles Yu, later told me that CCP leaders in general, and General Secretary Xi in particular, deploy overwrought erudition to play gullible American leaders,” he further said, adding, “Of the dozens of world leaders I met, he was among the most unpleasant.
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