Trump, as seen by delegates of China’s Congress: ‘I don’t know how his brain works, maybe nobody knows’
The deputies of the NPC, the highest organ of power in the Chinese state, were evasive about the American president in their only annual meeting with the press
In traditionally opaque Chinese politics, once a year an eclipse occurs and the international press is allowed to ask questions of the delegates of the National People’s Congress (NPC) directly, without intermediaries or filters. The event takes place just before the opening of the annual session of the legislative body and again just moments after it concludes. The nearly 3,000 deputies fill the lobby of the Great Hall of the People, in Tiananmen Square in Beijing. They come and go, chat in groups and — amid the confusion and their haste to try and avoid the press — it is time for reporters try their luck, tape recorder in hand, in search of a statement.
