You know, Chinese leaders, if you know anything about Chinese history - it has always been the time when China had been victimized by the outer world, is when they haven't been unified at home.
So the central, to vastly overstate it, the central principle of Xi Jinping is that there must be a united, tightly controlled China. And he uses his rationale for the things he does base on that.
I pointed out to him. No American president can be sustained as a president if he doesn't reflect the values of the United States.
And so the idea I'm not going to speak out against what he's doing in Hong Kong, what he's doing with the Uyghur in Western Mountains of China and Taiwan - trying to end the One-China policy by marking it forceful. I said... But he said he gets it.
Culturally, there are different norms that each country and their leaders are expected to follow.