Ivanka Trump did not accompany her father to Singapore for his summit with Kim Jong Un, but in an apparent show of support, tweeted what she described as a Chinese proverb: \u201cThose who say it can not be done, should not interrupt those doing it.\u201d That sounds like pearls of wisdom from a Chinese sage \u2013 except that many Chinese people do not think it is Chinese.<\/p>\n
China\u2019s social media has been abuzz with debate over the origin of the quote, screenshots of which have been widely shared among users on mainland China since Tuesday. Twitter is banned in China.<\/p>\n
US President Donald Trump said that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un told him that Pyongyang was destroying a major missile engine site. Mr Trump said Mr Kim informed him of this development during the historic nuclear summit they held on Tuesday<\/p>\n
One user on Weibo, China\u2019s version of Twitter, said the saying originated from Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw. Another claimed it came from American novelist James Baldwin.<\/p>\n
Quote Investigator, an internet website that looks at the origin of quotations, says the expression might have evolved from a comment in a periodical based in Chicago, Illinois, at the turn of the 20th century.<\/p>\n
\u201cActually Western people like to make up Chinese proverbs, like us, as we Chinese people also make up lots of those,\u201d said a diplomatic user on Weibo.<\/p>\n
Ivanka Trump posted the tweet on the eve of the Singapore summit, but did not specifically refer to the meeting. Nor did she say what \u201cit\u201d was.<\/p>\n
President Donald Trump met with North Korean leader Kim on Tuesday in a luxury hotel on a resort island in Singapore, in a summit unimaginable just months ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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