Chinese prez Xi Jingping is a good listener

May 31, 2016 13:31

Takeaways from President Pranab Mukherjee's visit to China. Senior correspondent R Rajagopalan travelled with the President on Air India One and writes that Chinese President Xi Jingping is a good listener.

This was evident from the fact that Pranab Mukherjee went on and on talking to Xi, on what one can only assume is a variety of subjects, while the state banquet was being held. The President's monologue was so lengthy and he spoke so fast, that translators could barely keep up. This was the scene of over an hour.

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