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China’s Xi is likely to decline Trump’s inauguration invitation, seeing it as too risky to attend
Associated Press ^ | December 13, 2024 | Didi Tang

Posted on 12/13/2024 1:21:27 AM PST by Olog-hai

Chinese leader Xi Jinping would likely see President-elect Donald Trump’s invitation to attend his inauguration as too risky to accept, and the gesture from Trump may have little bearing on the increasingly competitive ties between the two nations as the White House changes hands, experts say.

Trump’s incoming press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, confirmed on Thursday that Trump extended an invitation to the Jan. 20 ceremony. The Chinese Embassy in Washington said it had no information to provide. But experts don’t see Xi coming to Washington next month. […]

Yun Sun, director of the China program at the Stimson Center, a Washington-based think tank, said Beijing will play it safe when there’s no protocol or precedent for a Chinese leader to attend the inauguration of a U.S. president.

“I don’t think the Chinese will take the risk,” Sun said. There could be risks in the guest list, for example, Sun said, noting that Taiwan’s top diplomat in the U.S. attended the swearing-in of President Joe Biden in 2021. Beijing considers Taiwan to be Chinese territory and has repeatedly warned the U.S. that it is a red line not to be crossed. …

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TOPICS: China; Foreign Affairs; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: inauguration; redchina; trump; xijinping
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1 posted on 12/13/2024 1:21:27 AM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

senile Pedo Joe’s puppeteers would have no compunction about killing Xi.


2 posted on 12/13/2024 1:25:34 AM PST by kiryandil (No one in AZ that voted for Trump voted for Gallego )
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To: Olog-hai

More like that, if he goes then it will look like he’s paying tribute. This is not a good impression for domestic consumption.


3 posted on 12/13/2024 1:26:22 AM PST by Jonty30 (Genghis Khan did not have the most descendants. His father had more. )
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To: Olog-hai

I don’t know. Xi and Trump already have a relationship that’s well-known. If he doesn’t go, he will look afraid, and Pres. Trump will treat him civilly if he does come, so I think he will, just to show his people he’s not afraid of putting his head in the tiger’s mouth.


4 posted on 12/13/2024 1:55:59 AM PST by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals)
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To: Olog-hai

Trump trolls Pooh.

He knows the communist bandit would never go.

To Xi it would be making obeisance to Trump and the USA.

Just inviting him is a message.


5 posted on 12/13/2024 2:16:20 AM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: Olog-hai

Why invite your biggest enemy to an inauguration?


6 posted on 12/13/2024 3:00:35 AM PST by McGruff
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To: Olog-hai

Xi attending would send a signal that China and her vassals have no plans to send drones to the Mall.


7 posted on 12/13/2024 3:00:41 AM PST by fso301
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To: Olog-hai

Ha, Xi is a coward then? A paper tiger refusing to meet with a real tiger. He is faceless.


8 posted on 12/13/2024 3:25:34 AM PST by Kudsman (Hey,, Democrat,,leave them kids alone!)
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To: Olog-hai
Cheap godless confucian missing an opportunity that would rival Nixon In China. Quelle surprise.
9 posted on 12/13/2024 3:33:36 AM PST by StAnDeliver (TrumpII)
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To: Olog-hai

He has plenty of spies in DC like ex Pres Jill , Mitchy , The Farter from CA , and the entire Demonrat party so fly all that way .


10 posted on 12/13/2024 4:56:36 AM PST by ncalburt ( Gop DC Globalists are the evil)
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To: VanShuyten

XI already brought down Trump and the west with his
planted Virus Attack and we did nothing in return .
He could care less .
His puppet Evil Pres Jill was useful for the last four years.


11 posted on 12/13/2024 4:59:28 AM PST by ncalburt ( Gop DC Globalists are the evil)
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To: Olog-hai

The inauguration is about the US and celebrating the transfer of power.
Leave foreign dictators out of it.
They can come later and pay the Biden’s the remaining bribe money they agreed to pay.


12 posted on 12/13/2024 5:00:00 AM PST by HereInTheHeartland (Have you seen Joe Biden's picture on a milk carton?)
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To: Olog-hai

If he doesn’t come, it’s because he is afraid of being overthrown during his absence. There were rumors a couple of years ago that Xi was afraid to travel out of China for this reason.


13 posted on 12/13/2024 5:03:47 AM PST by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
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To: Jonty30

Classic fork gambit

Paying tribute if he comes

Chickenshit if he doesn’t


14 posted on 12/13/2024 5:07:10 AM PST by bert ( (KE. NP. +12) Where is ZORRO when California so desperately needs him?)
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by Algemeiner.com Staff
November 17, 2016 Report

Netanyahu Declines Invitation to Meet Newly-elected president Trump
Netanyahu said he declined as a “courtesy” to Pres Obama

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “declined” an invitation to meet with US President-elect Donald Trump before he is sworn into office on Jan. 20, 2017 the Hebrew news site Walla reported.

According to the report — which cited two senior Israeli government officials — the invitation was proffered during a phone call between Trump and Netanyahu the day after the Republican’s poll-defying victory over Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton in the presidential election.

However, Netanyahu declined Trump’s personal invitation because he said he wanted to avoid “embarrassing” President Barack Obama, the report quoted associates of the prime minister as saying. “There is only one president,” a senior Israeli diplomatic official was quoted as saying. “Until Jan. 20, Obama is still in the White House.”

Netanyahu fears “embarrassing” Obama even after Obama publicly berated him after Netanyahu traveled to the US in March 2015 to address Congress on the Iran nuclear deal without the consent of the White House.

Obama also criticized Netanyahu’s handling of Jewish settlements.

At a large gathering of US Jews on Tuesday, Netanyahu spoke via video feed from Jerusalem to attendees who were at the closing plenary of the Jewish Federations of North America’s General Assembly in Washington, DC.


The timesofisrael.com on 12 January 2017 reported Netanyahu was also not attending Trump’s inauguration. Netanyahu was not invited to the inauguration in Washington, DC, and leaders of foreign countries do not usually attend US presidential inaugurations, the Israel Hayom daily reported, citing Prime Minister Netanyahu’s Office as a source.

Earlier, Netanyahu canceled his trip scheduled for January 18, 2017 to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, leading to speculation that it had something to do with a police investigation into Netanyahu’s bribery and fraud charges for which he was later to stand trial.


15 posted on 12/13/2024 6:22:58 AM PST by Liz (As West Texas ranchers occasionally say: “THAT boy had one too many years of college.”)
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced he is planning to attend Trump’s inauguration on January 20, 2024 Channel 13 news reports. The tv station quotes a source in the Prime Minister’s Office as confirming that the trip is under consideration, though “no final decision has yet been made on the matter.”

Netanyahu is due to begin giving testimony on Tuesday in his criminal trial, which would need to break to allow for the trip, the report notes.


Netanyahu’s presence at the inauguration would surely endanger President Trump.

Trump needs to be mega-protected since he’s already been the victim of two assassination attempts.

Poor Mr Netanyahu is also a target. Netanyahu is said to be in court answering charges of fraud, breach of trust, and bribery. Other charges against Netanyahu include receiving bribes and acting in a conflict of interest as Minister of Communications.

Pending investigations include Netanyahu altering details about Oct 7——what exactly Mr Netanyahu knew in advance of Hamas’s invasion, when did he know it, and what was he told. Expected to play a key part in a postwar assessment of Netanyahu’s role in one of the worst military failures in Israel’s history.

Netanyahu in DC is an easy target for his many enemies, and multiple adversaries he faces in a war on seven fronts. He should be discouraged from attending.


16 posted on 12/13/2024 6:42:09 AM PST by Liz (As West Texas ranchers occasionally say: “THAT boy had one too many years of college.”)
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To: ncalburt

“ XI already brought down Trump and the west with his
planted Virus Attack and we did nothing in return .”

Unfortunately, you’re right.


17 posted on 12/13/2024 6:47:12 AM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: Olog-hai

Seeing it as too risky to attend Biden fears I will talk?.


18 posted on 12/13/2024 7:56:09 AM PST by Vaduz
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To: ifinnegan

No. The “West” was in on it.


19 posted on 12/13/2024 11:41:24 AM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Olog-hai

C’mon Xi—send a double.

You can do this.

Lol.


20 posted on 12/13/2024 11:44:24 AM PST by cgbg (It is time to pull the Deep State out of the mass media--like ticks from a dog.)
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