{"id":28446,"date":"2024-12-15T09:32:25","date_gmt":"2024-12-15T09:32:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/15\/trump-leaves-china-guessing-what-his-next-move-is-with-unusual-inauguration-invitation\/"},"modified":"2024-12-15T09:32:25","modified_gmt":"2024-12-15T09:32:25","slug":"trump-leaves-china-guessing-what-his-next-move-is-with-unusual-inauguration-invitation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/15\/trump-leaves-china-guessing-what-his-next-move-is-with-unusual-inauguration-invitation\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump leaves China guessing what his next move is with unusual inauguration invitation"},"content":{"rendered":"

President-elect Trump<\/a> took China by surprise when he invited President Xi Jinping to his upcoming inauguration, a friendly gesture ahead of a widely expected trade war.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The move left everyone wondering what Trump was up to \u2014 a Chinese head of state has not attended a U.S. inauguration in all of history.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Xi is not expected<\/a> to accept the invitation, sources told CBS News.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“We have a good relationship with China. I have a good relationship,” Trump told CNBC on Friday. “We’ve been talking and discussing with President Xi some things.”<\/p>\n

But the invitation comes as the U.S. intelligence community disclosed a massive hack of eight U.S. telecom companies, finding that Chinese hackers had accessed the data of millions of Americans, including Vice President-elect JD Vance.<\/a><\/p>\n

The hack, nicknamed Salt Typhoon<\/a> and one of the most far-reaching in history, affected mostly people in the Washington, D.C., area, and was targeted at government-linked people. Information about their phone calls and texts was intercepted.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Meanwhile, a Chinese national was arrested on suspicion of flying a drone over Vandenberg Space Force base in Northern California, the Department of Justice said Wednesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“Many people were disappointed by this invitation,” said China expert Gordon Chang.<\/p>\n

“A man who is responsible for spreading COVID<\/a> beyond China borders, for being behind the fentanyl program, which kills 70,000 Americans a year, that was not a good look for the United States,” he went on. “And it betrayed weakness.”<\/p>\n

“The Chinese president looks at that and believes that Trump is not serious,” said Chang.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“Xi Jinping has made it clear that the United States is China’s enemy. He’s done that in many ways. And for an American president to show friendship is not a gesture in Xi’s mind, it’s a display of weakness, and Chinese leaders always take advantage of weakness.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

It’s not clear if the invitation means that Trump is looking to take a more diplomatic approach to the relationship with China after a campaign marked by threats of hiking tariffs.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Trump has floated the idea of a 60% across-the-board levy on all goods imported from China, which would cover some $400 billion worth of products.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Free trade supporters have worried this would break a top campaign promise for Trump: to rein in and prevent the record inflation figures seen under the Biden administration.<\/p>\n

And the threat of a trade war comes as military tensions rise in the Indo-Pacific. China has been putting on displays of force in the waters off the shores of U.S. allies like the Philippines and Japan, and increasingly threatening Taiwan<\/a>, an island democracy it views as its rightful territory.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Defense experts have begun to muse whether the U.S. could find itself at war with China.<\/a><\/p>\n

Lyle Goldstein, Director of Asia Engagement at Defense Priorities think tank, welcomed the news of the invitation, reading it as a sign of being willing to engage.<\/p>\n

“Nothing like that has happened under the Biden administration,<\/a>” he said. “Trump is a dealmaker, and I think China is eager to make deals.<\/p>\n

“The Biden approach was very ideological, you know, the world is black and white.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

“If we go into a new Cold War, the results, I think, will be devastating for both the United States and China,” Goldstein added. “I think there is some understanding in the Trump team that the stakes are enormous here.”<\/p>\n

China, meanwhile, is considering devaluing its currency further in anticipation of Trump’s tariffs, according to a Reuters report.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“People have got to realize that trading with China generally is a good thing. But yeah, we have to. There are some key readjustments that need to take place,” said Goldstein.<\/p>\n

“I would like to see that take place from readjusting China’s currency.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

President-elect Trump took China by surprise when he invited President Xi Jinping to his upcoming inauguration, a friendly gesture ahead of a widely expected trade war.\u00a0 The move left everyone wondering what Trump was up to \u2014 a Chinese head of state has not attended a U.S. inauguration in all of history.\u00a0 Xi is not … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28446\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}