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China invites Trump press secretary Katie Zacharia to visit after ‘proper toilets’ slur

South China Morning Post16 October 2026, 10:53 UTCPeople's Republic of China

Beijing has invited White House press secretary Katie Zacharia to visit the country more often after she said in an interview that China “doesn’t even have proper toilets”. The newly appointed spokeswoman for the Trump administration made the controversial remarks in an interview on Thursday with conservative commentator Jack Posobiec, when talking about the perception around 2016 that “the gold days, the glory days of the US were over and China was on the horizon”. “I remember this very...

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