For a president who has spent years promising he’d never let China push the U.S. around, Xi Jinping’s visit to Washington gives Donald Trump an awkward political problem: the Chinese leader gets the red-carpet treatment, while Trump does much of the accommodating.
Trump personally greeted Xi and his wife, Peng Liyuan, at Joint Base Andrews on Wednesday evening—the first time a president has left the White House to greet a state leader there since 1962, when JFK met British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan.
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