At a breakfast meeting with US senators, President Donald Trump recalled his recent encounter with Chinese President Xi Jinping, drawing laughter with an anecdote about the tense demeanour of Xi’s delegation.

Trump said he wanted his Cabinet to show the same discipline as Xi’s aides, who he described as “stiff, silent, and stone-faced” during their meeting in Malaysia. “President Xi is a tough man, smart man,” Trump said. “I’ve never seen men so scared in their lives.”

The president mimicked the posture of Xi’s aides arms behind their backs, chins raised as he told senators how none of them spoke during the exchange. “There were six on each side of him, and every one of those people were standing like this,” Trump said, demonstrating. “They were at attention. I said, ‘Are you going to an

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