Bloomberg: Xi, Putin Stay at Chinese-Owned Waldorf Obama Snubbed
Chinese President Xi Jinping leaves the White House, where he discussed the theft of commercial secrets, and heads to New York to check in tonight at the Waldorf Astoria, where his privacy is sure to be guaranteed by the hotel’s new Chinese owners.
On Sunday, Xi will be joined by Russia’s Vladimir Putin, who also picked the Waldorf for his first stay in Manhattan in a decade, according to diplomats preparing for the Eurasian leaders’ address to the annual seven-day session of the United Nations General Assembly.
The occupancy of two such high-profile figures, whose countries routinely vote in tandem at the UN Security Council, comes as the U.S. instead switches loyalties after a decades-long tradition of staying at the storied hotel built on a former cemetery. President Barack Obama and his entourage will relocate to South Korean-owned Lotte New York Palace Hotel for UNGA week.
WNU Editor: I can guarantee one thing about this arrangement .... Russian President Putin and Chinese President Xi will be having a private talk Sunday night. On a side note .... who is taking the Presidential Suite? (see above video).