In a brief yet poignant tweet, Gita Gopinath, an American economist and former deputy managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), pointed out how no woman was sitting at the between US President Donald Trump and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping. “A painting of the end of meritocracy: A meeting of the two largest economies and not one woman at the table,” Gopinath wrote in the post, sharing a photograph of the meeting, which took place on Thursday.