According to the "factsheet" that was issued by The White House after tRump's recent visit to China he achieved a lot. Also, "Xi is his friend, and everything was a huge success for the American president". Well, the all-in-all-impression of the visit comes out different for those who watched some of the videos of the top moments. Actually, in my opinion it came out as a Textbook Example of subtle, symbolic humiliations, and I confess, I love it. There were no screaming matches, physical fights or verbal insults, but still, I saw a continuous string of secret messages underlying the public moments of an ordinary State Visit.

A lot of pomp, but no Xi to greet the American president

It started in the airport as tRump wasn't given the warm welcome of, for instance, Putin. Why didn't Xi come to greet him like he has done with others? Not doing that is a potent signal of contempt: Xi doesn't see tRump as neither a personal friend nor a statesman of equal status. In my opinion, it was obvious that the Chinese president took trouble in making that fact clear to the world at large, and that tRump didn't have a chance of fighting the Chinese settings. However, tRump being tRump makes it more than likely that he didn't even catch the underlaying stream of insults in everything Xi did. It wasn't only the way the Chinese president made a point in holding back because of tRump's need of catching his breath. The chair which was lower than the one of Xi gave the same message of weakness, because it made him look smaller. On top of that it seems that he wasn't served any tea when the Chinese president had a cup.

There were many sceneries with kids which is interesting when considering tRump's status as a pedophile after being mentioned in the files of Epstein, allegedly, more than 38,000 times. When Xi promised tRump the gift of Chinese rose seeds that must have been a subtle reference to the famous, American rose garden of Jackie Kennedy which now has been turned into a concrete waste land.

There is no personal friendship between tRump and Xi Jinping. Actually, the latter one signalled contempt for tRump and found a way to make that clear. Also, there were not many concrete political agreements or valuable trade deals which made the visit stand out as a success.