At press conference with President Obama, China’s leader lectures US media

Moments of high drama played out at President Barack Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping’s joint press conference, as the Chinese leader appeared to be snubbing the US by ignoring an American journalist’s questions, but eventually came around to addressing them after extended remarks.

“Media outlets need to obey China’s laws and regulations,” Xi said, before launching into a metaphor suggesting that news outlets’ credentialing problems were the organizations’ own fault. “When a car breaks down in the road, perhaps we need to get off the car to see where the problem lies . … In Chinese, we have a saying: The party which has created the problem, should be the one to help resolve it.”