The invite was an unorthodox move from Trump
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Xi Jinping has rejected President-elect Donald Trump’s invitation to the inauguration, he reports.
The Chinese president invited to Trump’s moment inauguration on January 20, yet resources showed the leader would not attend, CNN reports.
The invitation was an unorthodox move by Trump, who said he was “considering inviting other people to the inauguration,” 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 revealed that the Chinese leader had been invited to appear on Fox.
“This is a very attractive move by Trump that fits very well with his practice of unpredictability. I don’t think I expected that,” Lily McElwee, deputy director and Freeman chair of Chinese Studies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, told CNN.
“It’s a very, very reasonable carrot. It’s a symbolic carrot – it sort of alters the tone of the quotes in a way that doesn’t undermine US interests.
According to State Department records, no foreign head of state has ever attended an inauguration in the United States.
“We have a relationship with China. I have a relationship,” Trump told CNBC.
Last month, Trump threatened to impose 25% price lists on goods imported from Mexico and Canada, as well as additional 10% price lists on goods from China. These three countries are the United States’ largest trading partners.
“Drugs are flowing into our country, primarily Mexico, at levels never seen before,” 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 group of Nobel prize winners wrote a letter warning about Trump’s economic plans, saying his policies could have a “destabilizing effect.”
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