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Washington (AP) – Chinese President Xi Jinping, will attend the inauguration of the elected president Donald Trump, however, sends the vice president Han Zheng as a special representative.
The decision, announced Friday in China through the Foreign Ministry, came more than a month after Trump extended the invitation to XI, a break from tradition, because no head of state in the past made an official stop to the United States. for the inauguration.
“We are in conditions of paintings with the new US government for discussion and communication, manage differences, expand mutually favorable cooperation,” pursues a stable, healthy and lasting United States. Relations and locate the correct way for any of the countries to get along, “said the ministry spokesman when the resolution was announced.
Other foreign leaders have spoken about being invited to Trump’s inauguration, including Argentinian President Javier Milei and Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni. The offices of Ecuadorean President Daniel Noboa and Paraguayan President Santiago Peña have also said they were invited and were planning to attend.
Sun Yun, director of the China program at the Washington-based think tank center, said Xi’s resolution means “China is in a position to renounce protocol and respond to what Trump wants. “
“It indicates that China is willing to talk, negotiate and make efforts to reach deals,” Sun wrote.
Danny Russel, vice president of foreign security and international relations at the Asia Society Society, said Beijing is hiding through the Han de XI shipment.
“Zero possibility that Xi Jinping allows us to be a pot in pot in the triumphal coronation of Donald Trump. At the same time, making sure that China extends sufficient courtesy to the bruises of Trump’s ego,” Russell wrote the Han’s mission, said The former American diplomat, said the former American diplomat, is “symbolic, not substantial. “
The shipment of have occurs while the American-China rivalry deserves to intensify. Several of Trump applicants for the wardrobe are the Falcons of China, adding Senator Marco Rubio de Florida, who is appointed Secretary of State. Rubio described China as “the maximum powerful and maximum harmful and closer to this country has never faced” its confirmation hearing on Wednesday, when the members of the Senatorial Foreign Relations Committee urged Rubio to make China an absolute priority .
Beijing prefers leader-level talks, which it believes could help guide the bilateral relations, while Trump likes to deal with world leaders directly.
As president, Xi has traveled abroad for state visits and summits. But he did not attend the coronation of King Charles III, nor did he go to the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II or the memorial service for Nelson Mandela. Instead, he sent vice presidents. Han was his special representative for King Charles III’s coronation. When Trump invited Xi to the inauguration in December, it was widely believed that Xi was unlikely to come.
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Associated Press Adriana Gomez Licon in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, contributed to this report.
Didi Tang, The Associated Press
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