On Wednesday night, Xi Jinping received a standing ovation from a group of more than 300 U.S. “elites” at a “Welcome Dinner by Friendly Organizations in the United States.”

That’s how Chinese officials and state media characterized the event, at the Hyatt Regency in San Fransisco, attended by U.S. corporate leaders and political heavyweights with close ties to Beijing. It’s hard to dispute their framing: The crowd was a who’s who of Americans with a vested interest in maintaining close ties with the Chinese Communist Party.

The speech that Xi delivered to the gathering was itself fairly unremarkable, and the part that ...

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Dinner with Xi in San Francisco: A Who’s Who of America’s Beijing-Friendly Elite

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17.11.2023

On Wednesday night, Xi Jinping received a standing ovation from a group of more than 300 U.S. “elites” at a “Welcome Dinner by Friendly Organizations in the........

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