Chinese President Xi Jinping reportedly snubs Trump’s inauguration invite | EUROtoday

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Xi Jinping has snubbed President-elect Donald Trump’s invitation to the inauguration, in line with stories.

The Chinese president was invited to Trump’s second inauguration on January 20, however sources confirmed the chief wouldn’t be attending, CNN stories.

The invite was an unorthodox transfer from Trump, who stated he had been “thinking about inviting certain people to the inauguration” at an look on the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday.

“And some people said, ‘Wow, that’s a little risky, isn’t it?’” Trump stated. “And I said, ‘Maybe it is. We’ll see. We’ll see what happens.’ But we like to take little chances.”

Transition spokesperson Karoline Leavitt confirmed that the Chinese chief had been invited throughout an look on Fox & Friends Thursday morning.

“This is a very interesting move by Trump that fits very well with his practice of unpredictability. I don’t think anyone expected this,” Lily McElwee, deputy director and fellow within the Freeman Chair in China Studies on the Center for Strategic and International Studies, instructed CNN.

“This is a very, very cheap carrot. It’s a symbolic carrot — it disrupts the tone of the relationship a little bit in a way that certainly doesn’t undermine U.S. interests.”

No overseas head of state has ever attended a U.S. inauguration, in line with State Department information.

“We have a good relationship with China. I have a good relationship,” Trump instructed CNBC.

Last month, Trump threatened to impose 25 p.c tariffs on imported items from Mexico and Canada in addition to a further 10 p.c tariffs on items from China. These three international locations symbolize the U.S.’s high buying and selling companions.

“Drugs are pouring into our Country, mostly through Mexico, at levels never seen before,” Trump wrote on Truth Social final month. “Until such time as they stop, we will be charging China an additional 10% Tariff, above any additional Tariffs, on all of their many products coming into the United States of America.”

In response, a spokesperson for China’s embassy within 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.”

In the aftermath of Trump’s election victory, some consultants have been warning about how tariffs may impression shoppers and will result in inflation.

Over the summer time, a bunch of Nobel prize winners wrote a letter warning about Trump’s financial plans, saying his insurance policies may have a “destabilizing effect.”