With president Trump, Zhou Xiaochuan, a US official, and Christine Lagarde.
President Trump, referring to himself in the third-person on the campaign trail in 2016, talks up a trade war.
Zhou Xiaochuan, then head of China’s central bank, politely tells the IMF in 2010 that the West needs to get its house in order before criticizing China.
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