Xi Jinping Most Powerful Chinese Leader Since Mao Zedong: Donald Trump

Washington: Chinese President Xi Jinping is the most powerful leader of China since Mao Zedong, US President Donald Trump said, underlining that the two leaders have developed a very good relationship.

Trump arrived in Vietnam from China, wherein he said he had a "very successful" meeting with Xi. The US President praised Xi for his statement at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Summit on denuclearisation of the Korean Peninsula. "He (Xi) made a statement that he is committed to stopping the nuclearisation of North Korea. That is a big statement," Trump said and noted that he gets along with Xi very well.

"He is the most powerful Chinese leader since Mao Zedong. Some people say more powerful than Mao," Trump said on Air Force One as he flew from Da Nang to Hanoi for a summit meeting with Vietnamese leaders.

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