The invitation is an unorthodox move on Trump’s part
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Xi Jinping has rejected President-elect Donald Trump’s invitation to the inauguration, he reports.
The Chinese president was invited to Trump’s second inauguration on January 20, but reports showed the leader would not attend, CNN reports.
The invite was an unorthodox move from Trump, who said he had been “thinking about inviting certain people to the inauguration” at an appearance at the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday.
“And some other people said, ‘Wow, that’s a little risky, right?’,” Trump said. And I said, ‘Maybe so. ‘ We’ll see. We’ll see what happens. ” But we like to take few risks.
Transition spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt said the Chinese leader had been invited to appear on Fox & Friends on Thursday morning.
“It’s a very attractive resolution by Trump that fits very well with his practice of unpredictability. I don’t think I expected that,” Freeman Lily McElwee, deputy director and member of the presidency, in Chinese Studies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, told CNN.
“This is a very, very cheap carrot. It’s a symbolic carrot — it disrupts the tone of the relationship a little bit in a way that certainly doesn’t undermine U.S. interests.”
According to State Department records, no foreign head of state has ever attended an inauguration in the United States.
“We have relations with China.
Last month, Trump threatened to impose 25 percent tariffs on imported goods from Mexico and Canada as well as an additional 10 percent tariffs on goods from China. These three countries represent the U.S.’s top trading partners.
“Drugs are flowing into our country, primarily Mexico, at levels never before seen,” Trump wrote in Truth Social last month. “Until they stop, we will impose an additional 10% tariff on China, on top of any additional tariffs, on all of their numerous products entering the United States of America. “
In response, a spokesperson for China’s embassy in the U.S. wrote on X: “China-US economic and trade cooperation is mutually beneficial in nature. No one will win a trade war or a tariff war.”
After Trump’s election victory, some experts warned about the effect that price lists could have on consumers and generate inflation.
Over the summer, a Nobel laureate organization wrote a letter warning that they opposed Trump’s economic plans, saying his policies could simply have a “destabilizing effect. “
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