“I spent an hour with the Foreign Minister, and that was the appropriate venue on the basis of the conversations I had with the State Department under the basis of the fact that that would be a better place to communicate a more nuanced and detailed explanation of our points of view on issues of human rights and democracy, on issues related to Taiwan, issues related to international and foreign policy more broadly,” Newsom said. “And we took the limited time we had with Xi, which we were told would be just 20 minutes and we had the opportunity to extend it to 45, and I didn’t want to miss the opportunity to reinforce the reason I was there: not as President of the United States, not as Secretary of State, but as the Governor of one of the largest states and one of the largest economies in the world, to focus on low carbon, green growth and I didn’t want to miss that opportunity and moment to influence this foundational agenda, which is bigger than any situational agenda in our lifetime.”
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