Jinping Xi - Obama Presidency Oral History

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Michael Froman

...Hu and Premier Wen, and later with President Xi wherever they were, at summits togethe...
...to was a process within China, because President Xi was very committed to and focused o...

Leon Panetta

...your visits to China and a meeting with Xi Jinping before he became president. I wonder i...
...with regards to those dialogues. Xi had come to the United States for ...
...a visit before he became president, and Xi had spent some time in the Unite...
...in front of the Pentagon in honor of Xi . We went to the platform, had ou...
...the opportunity then to sit down with Xi , normally those kinds of meetings i...

...areas. But it was interesting that with Xi , there really were no talking point...
...deal with our security concerns.” And Xi , to his credit, acknowledged tha...
...opportunity. During the discussion with Xi , by the way, I mentioned cybe...

Alan Fitts

...that trip, we did meet with President Xi [Jinping] and his wife. It was one of thos...
...be a dinner with Mrs. Peng, the wife of President Xi , but we knew that President Xi woul...
...wife of President Xi, but we knew that President Xi would stop by. From a protoco...
...she said, “My husband is meeting with President Xi right now. If this is going t...

Deesha Dyer

...you had your first state dinner with President Xi Jinping of China, also the week of the Pop...
...which was the private dinner between President Xi and President Obama. We didn'...

Ron Kirk

...Putin, now President Putin, much like President Xi [Jinping] is now doing in China, represents tha...

Max Baucus

...of interest by the Chinese, including President Xi [Jinping] . And after a while—of course, i...
...upset he was with Kim Jong-un, President Xi . He just indicated—he says he has ...
...with him, just can't get Kim where he— Xi —wants him to be. But there was no...
...with—did you have much interaction with Xi Jinping , or Premier Li [Keqiang], for example...
...and we'd meet and talk. But no, I saw President Xi quite often. But again, it was only i...

...the hands of the hawks in China. Xi Jinping , like any leader, has to listen to th...
...And if the hawks have the upper hands, Xi Jinping is going to go one way. If reformers...
...going to pay the price. I think even Xi Jinping understands that to a large degree...
...that corruption is there. And when President Xi started “cracking down” and arresting ...
...yes, there's some corruption. But when President Xi started to crack down, he did—you coul...
...And the people on the street loved President Xi for it. They liked it—he's crackin...
...summit between President Obama and Xi , I was struck with how much Hong Kon...
...Kong seemed to be under the skin of President Xi . He raised it twice, basically saying...
...much there. But during that summit, President Xi went on to talk about the role o...
...it was just—Hong Kong is a big deal to President Xi . So I'm not at all surprised—a...
...the hands or the resolve, frankly, of President Xi not to give “more human rights” in th...
...understanding that Hong Kong gets under Xi 's skin because it denies him th...
...rule, that's a problem for me, President Xi .” And that's a real problem. You don'...
...submerged reefs and making islands. And President Xi said, “No, no, we're not going t...
...in September of 2014 to prepare for the Xi -Obama summit that was going to happe...
...three-ring binder, sitting next to President Xi , who's going through her talkers...
...other—like this—other meetings between Xi and Obama. At the summit in Beijing i...
...November around climate change, there's Xi 's state visit in September of 2015...
...in September of 2015. There's Obama and Xi at the G20 meeting in China. What woul...
...his list of issues he wanted to talk to President Xi about. Then, he left. A little whil...
...to Premier Li. The meeting was not with Xi , but it was with Premier Li. I said—L...
...We Americans need to understand. When President Xi came over for the '15 summit, ...
...I wanted to do the same thing with President Xi . I wanted to be at DC when Presiden...
...President Xi. I wanted to be at DC when President Xi got off the plane. Now, how in th...
...possible, and just very privately look President Xi straight in the eye and say, ‘Uh-uh...
...that is what Obama did when he met with Xi . Only people there was Obama, Susa...
...Jim [James W.] Brown, our interpreter, Xi Jinping , Yang Jiechi, and hi...

Jeffrey Bader

...why President Obama invited Xi Jinping to Sunnylands [California], after ...
...which is a dictatorship. But even under Xi Jinping , it is not—the president of the Unite...
...I haven't been there through the whole Xi Jinping era. I continue to think that's th...
...is first among equals. Well, Xi Jinping is more than first among equals. But h...
...I was in the US government. And under Xi Jinping in China, that is behaving in a mor...

...to tell them what you've got to do. But Xi Jinping seems less inclined to be responsive t...
...tried—you remember Obama's meeting with Xi Jinping in Sunnylands. And the whole purpose o...
...that if something arose subsequently, Xi Jinping could say, “Oh yeah, I remember that...
...was more comfortable with that than Xi Jinping was. The Chinese are not comfortabl...
...Community Party is—even as strong as Xi is—is first among equals in th...
...rough consensus on China. It was before Xi Jinping , and before they were locking u...

John Podesta

...meeting—he was going to meet with President Xi [Jinping] at Sunnylands [Rancho Mirage...
...to president. They had met when Xi was vice president. I said the thin...
...blockers. But he should raise it with Xi ; maybe you can get a deal. Denis sor...
...[Angela] Merkel, which he did, but with Xi and [Narendra] Modi, and particularl...
...announcement at a private dinner with President Xi . I think it might've been just the tw...

...when Secretary Kerry went to China, saw President Xi , saw the other key actors in th...
...Chinese side that was unusual because President Xi —although he addressed the UN Genera...
...the ambition keeps working its way up. Xi announced that they would be net-zero...

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