Showing up planeside for Xi is strength, not surrender. The U.S.-China relationship will define this century, and freezing out the world's second-largest economy while it builds up its military is denial dressed up as toughness. Roll out the red carpet, extend the trade truce, open a channel on AI — then hold Beijing to every promise it makes.
Beijing armed Iran with intelligence used against American troops, propped up Putin's war and strip-mined American AI companies at industrial scale. Rewarding that record with a military flyover, a state banquet and a president waiting on the tarmac buys nothing but a photo op Xi never bothered to return. That isn't America First — it's America on its knees.
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