Game Recognizes Game: Watch Xi Jinping’s Reaction After Handshake with Stephen Miller (Video)
You can’t fake this kind of moment.
During the big Trump-Xi summit greeting line at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, something stood out that a lot of people immediately noticed. Chinese President Xi Jinping went down the row shaking hands with the American delegation — and he paused the longest when he got to Stephen Miller.
It wasn’t just a quick grip and move on. Xi held the handshake, looked at Miller a beat longer, and there was a clear moment of extra interest. Game recognizes game.
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Stephen Miller has been one of Trump’s most loyal and effective warriors for years — the guy who helped craft the hard-line immigration policies that actually put America First. He doesn’t play games, doesn’t leak, and doesn’t bend to the Washington crowd. Xi, who runs one of the most calculating authoritarian regimes on Earth, clearly clocked that.
It wasn’t awkward. It was respectful. Two serious operators sizing each other up in real time.
This is what happens when you send a real team to the table instead of the usual diplomats who apologize for America’s existence. Trump’s inner circle isn’t filled with globalist lightweights. It’s filled with people who fight for results, and that energy travels with them overseas.
The contrast with previous administrations is night and day. Under Biden-Harris, foreign leaders looked at America and saw weakness. Now they’re shaking hands with a delegation that projects strength, focus, and confidence. Even Xi — who doesn’t give away much — showed visible respect for Miller.
Trump has always understood that personnel is policy. Putting people like Stephen Miller in key positions sends a message louder than any press release: this administration means business.
The left will probably try to spin this as something sinister or awkward, but normal Americans see it for what it is — a powerful moment that shows the world Trump’s team is built different.
Respect where respect is due. Game recognizes game, and the whole world just watched it happen in Beijing.
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Bruce Hoenshell is a military historian, he is one of the most prolific conservative writers today, often churning out multiple columns per week. His writings tend to focus on international themes, modern warfare. Style Sampling: “ It is not that we need social networking and Internet searches more than food and fuel, but rather that we have the impression that cool zillionaires in flip-flops are good while uncool ones in wingtips are quite bad.”
I can’t say for sure but that looked like a Masonic handshake. Watch them all shake hands then watch Miller, the index finger of his right does not grip it “points” so to speak at the man whose hand is being shook. The guy next to Miler shook his hand the same.
If you watch Trump he too does that.