Trump to host Xi amid pomp, low expectations
military honor guard has been rehearsing and the new White House helipad is ready. Will Xi Jinping and Donald Trump achieve lift-off at their summit next week?
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military honor guard has been rehearsing and the new White House helipad is ready.
Will Xi Jinping and Donald Trump achieve lift-off at their summit next week?
president, media-minded as ever, is also focused on the optics of the visit, having been hosted with high pomp during his own state visit to China in May.
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military honor guard has been rehearsing and the new White House helipad is ready. Will Xi Jinping and Donald Trump achieve lift-off at their summit next week? Warnings of an AI apocalypse hang heavy over the Chinese president's first White House meetings with Trump, as both countries race for technological supremacy.
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- sanctions against countries dealing with Tehran, despite reports that Beijing supplied Tehran with intelligence for a strike on U.S.
- A simmering trade war between the world's two largest economies is of even greater concern, while the threat of military confrontation over Taiwan looms large as well.
- Behind it all is a desire to manage tensions between a superpower keen to keep its place at the top and a rapidly rising rival determined to make the 21st century a Chinese one.
- president, media-minded as ever, is also focused on the optics of the visit, having been hosted with high pomp during his own state visit to China in May.
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Trump's Iran war casts a long shadow too, as China seeks to avoid U.S.
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