One of the best interviews of the year was done by Fareed Zakaria on his show on CNN. He interviewed Vladimir Putin about a number of issues, including the candidates for office in the US. I can't imagine Xi doing a similar interview because he wants his questions screened and his responses scripted. Putin was able to answere some really tricky questions about the athletic doping issues that got Russian atheletes banned from the Olympics, and the landmine questions about Trump and Clinton. He tempered his responses quite a bit from what he said before about the two of them, probably hedging his bets.
He said one thing I took issue with, since he was aware of Russia meddling in US elections when he was a member of the KGB. He said Russia never meddles in the US elections, when he knows that is not true. It was not in keeping with the rest of the interview where he seemed to have a good grasp of issues and a sense of humor sadly lacking in US politics.
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