Posted on 06/16/2023 12:50:11 PM PDT by nickcarraway
The meeting follows an announcement by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation that it would give US$50 million to support Chinese efforts to fight malaria and tuberculosis.
Chinese leader Xi Jinping told his "old friend" Bill Gates on Friday (Jun 16) that China had always placed its hopes in the American people, after the Microsoft co-founder's foundation pledged US$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-19 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.
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A big nerdy useful idiot.
Blinken is going there Sunday. He is meeting with Chang Win, from accounting.
What an embarrassment.
Xi has got his Lindbergh.
Peter Schweizer has a great interview on the Shawn Ryan show talking about the relationship that Gates has with the Chinese. It ain’t good.
Bill may be giving Xi instructions how to eliminate 100 million people inexpensively.
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