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Trump Greets Xi Planeside for State Visit

Trump Greets Xi Planeside for Rare State Visit

Trump Greets Xi Planeside for State Visit
Above: Donald Trump and Melania Trump greet Xi Jinping and Peng Liyuan at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland on Sept. 23. Image credit: Kent Nishimura/AFP/Getty Images

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Showing up planeside for Xi isshows diplomatic strength, not surrender. The U.S.-China relationship will define this century, and Trump is not interested in freezing out the world's second-largest economy while it builds up its military issimply denialto dressedpacify updomestic as toughnesspoliticians. RollThe outadministration theis redright carpet,to extendbe rolling out the tradered truce,carpet openas a channelmeans onto AIa —diplomatic thenend holdfor Beijingthe tosake everyof promisefuture itworld makessecurity.

Beijing armed Iran with intel used against U.S. 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 buysdoes nothing but buy a photo op Xi never bothered to reciprocate. ThatThis isn'tvisit Americareveals First.an That is America on its knees.


Metaculus Prediction

There is a 9% chance there will be a U.S.-China war before 2035, according to the Metaculus prediction community.


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