Mr. Xi was treated like a rock star by the Davos capitalists, and while never mentioning Trump (or, for that matter, Britain's protectionist Brexit withdrawal) by name, he unmistakably took aim against them.
Now he is unmistakably an adult, and he has a responsibility that goes far beyond anything a star conductor has undertaken.
But when asked if he found anything satisfying about getting older, he was unmistakably straightforward.
At the same time as he was playing a completely credible, almost classical kind of figure, he also unmistakably had a Lower East Side hipster sensibility.
Photograph: GARY SCHAFER/AAPIMAGE If you want a simple straightforward statement about Coalition foreign policy, it is unmistakably to project and protect Australia's reputation as an open export orientated, successful market economy and an open liberal democracy, committed to freedoms, democratic institutions and the rule of law.
By "rush into print" he meant toward proclamations about war; by the "mistake" in the past he meant, unmistakably, Iraq.
He has unmistakably reached a final crossroads.
And, of course, he's unmistakably posh.
He was unmistakably the Queen's cousin, though.
On Thursday, inside the tent, he sounded unmistakably like a man with ambitions well beyond Albany.
For once, he seemed unmistakably an adult, with a faint five-o'clock shadow.
