An electronics shop employee in Hong Kong on October 18, 2017, looks at television sets showing a news report on China's President Xi Jinping's speech at the opening session of the Chinese Communist Party's five-yearly Congress. (Anthony Wallace/AFP via Getty Images)
Bouthaina Shaaban, political and media adviser to the Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad, speaks via Skype during a press conference on June 2, 2016 at the National Press Club in Washington, DC. (MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images)