Live Updates: Trump Bristles Ahead of More Meetings With Xi on Day 2 of China Summit - The New York Times
Hours before meeting again with China’s leader, President Trump pushed back on what he described as a suggestion from Xi Jinping that the United States was a “declining nation.” Luke BroadwaterAna SwansonLily Kuo and Niraj Chokshi President Trump on Friday pushed back on what he described as a suggestion of American decline by China’s leader, Xi Jinping, hours before the two leaders were set to meet for a second day in Beijing. “When President Xi very elegantly referred to the United States as perhaps being a declining nation, he was referring to the tremendous damage we suffered during the four years of Sleepy Joe Biden and the Biden Administration, and on that score, he was 100% correct,” Mr. Trump wrote on social media. It was not immediately clear what comments Mr. Trump was responding to. The summit, the first U.S. presidential visit to China in nearly a decade, could determine whether a détente between the two countries will continue. In Beijing on Thursday, Mr. Xi and Mr. Trump
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