Chinese dictator Xi Jinping has been invited to attend President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration in January, CBS News reports.
Some “sources” said The same media reported that after the presidential election, President Trump invited President Xi to attend his next inauguration ceremony. The source added that it was unclear whether Mr. Xi had accepted Mr. Trump's invitation.
Caroline Levitt, the Trump campaign's national press secretary who was recently selected as Trump's press secretary, said world leaders are “lining up to meet with President Trump.”
“World leaders are lining up to meet with President Trump because they know he will soon return to power and use American power to restore peace to the world,” Levitt said in a statement. body,” he said.
Other world leaders, including Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, are also “still considering” whether to attend Trump's inauguration, a person close to Orbán's plans told the outlet.
CBS News reported that so far no foreign leaders have been reported to have attended the presidential inauguration, although “ambassadors and other diplomats are typically invited to the inauguration.”
Ambassadors and other diplomats are typically invited to inauguration ceremonies, but no foreign leader has ever attended a transition ceremony, according to State Department records dating back to 1874.
After President Trump's victory over Vice President Kamala Harris in November, world leaders including French President Emmanuel Macron, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu criticized Trump's “election.'' Congratulations on your impressive victory.
World leaders, including Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Argentine President Javier Millay, also met with Trump after his election victory.
The claim that President Trump invited President Xi Jinping to attend his inauguration comes after President Trump had previously imposed a 10% tariff on China on goods imported into the United States until it addressed the flow of drugs into the United States. The reason behind this is that he had threatened to impose
I have had numerous discussions with China about the large amounts of drugs being sent to the United States, especially fentanyl, to no avail. Representatives from China told me that if drug traffickers were caught doing this, they would face the maximum penalty of death, but unfortunately China did not do this and, primarily through Mexico, Drugs are flowing into our country at unprecedented levels. . Until these measures are suspended, China will be subject to additional tariffs of 10%, higher than any additional tariffs, on all Chinese products imported into the United States. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
