(Disclaimer: this is a work of fiction. Learn to take a joke; you’ll live longer.) “We weren’t expecting Xi Jinping, even though he is his counterpart as head of government,” said a Pakistani Foreign Office source, on the condition of anonymity. “But we could have had either the Premiere of the State Council received the PM or the Chairman of the Congress. We had to make do, instead, with Deputy Secretary General of the Beijing Municipal Committee.”“But what really twisted the knife here was him subsequently being seated at the kids’ table at the following banquet,” he said.

Source: Pakistan Today April 26, 2019 09:33 UTC