Gordon Chang on Trump-Xi Summit: ‘The Substantive Part of This Event Was Less Than Two Hours’

RUSH EXCERPT:

CHANG: "Michael Pillsbury certainly has a point, but we got to remember that the substantive part of this event was less than two hours. So when you subtract the translation as less than an hour and probably the Chinese gave their standard rant on Taiwan, which takes another 10 to 15 minutes off of that. So I don’t think that there could have been that much that was discussed now, of course, will learn more Monday. As you pointed out, we’re going to have the White House released details on trade deals and eg purchasers, but you know I don’t get the sense that the Chinese came here to deal with. They came here for where the televised images of President Trump honoring Susan pig, and that reason is that season paying has problems at home. Politically, we’ve seen all these purges and we seen symptoms of unrest. So I think that essentially this further, the Chinese was not to come to do but to come to be seen"