Xi told the late Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe that he probably would not have joined the Communist Party if he had been born in the United States, but would have been a member of the Democratic or Republican parties. (Bloomberg)
Most US presidents see themselves as βthe leader of the Western worldβ, but Trump complained about having to bear the burden of the West and did not think in terms of a divide between free and authoritarian countries, Abe said.
Abe accused former South Korean president Moon Jae-in of wanting to use anti-Japanese feeling to buoy his administration as tensions flared over whether Japan had sufficiently compensated Seoul for its past colonization.
Abe said he told former German chancellor Angela Merkel he did not want to sanction Russia over its 2014 invasion of Crimea, because he wanted to prioritize talks on territory that Tokyo and Moscow have disputes over.
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