His level of political literacy is not even deserving of these low ranking officials.
And make precious infrastructure suffer his presence? Show him in which direction his hotel is and let him walk.
"making unfounded claims" is a charitable way of describing deliberately lying to manufacture consent for an imperial war of aggression
Imagine being the unfortunate low ranking schmuck who has to pretend to make nice with this ghoul
If you’re going to intentionally sabotage your trip then why bother going at all?
It's to "look tough on China" and to pretend they care about diplomacy.
They do this to appear "diplomatic" with other nations, so they can pretend they tried diplomacy before threatening them later.
Exactly this. He's already acknowledged China has no interest in the current set of demands.