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Summary

Chinese President Xi Jinping is not expected to attend Donald Trump’s inauguration despite a personal invitation extended by Trump shortly after Election Day.

This informal invitation, which surprised Beijing and U.S. allies, breaks from standard diplomatic protocol as no foreign head of state has attended a U.S. inauguration since 1874.

China’s ambassador and other officials will represent Beijing instead.

The invitation comes amid tense U.S.-China relations, following a major Chinese-linked hack of U.S. telecoms, raising concerns about the geopolitical implications of Trump’s outreach to Xi.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

He said/Xi said then.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm not advocating violence, but imagine a timeline where Xi actually attends and an assassin went there to fire at trump, then missed and accidentaly shot at Xi and Xi dies. Like imagine the shitshow lol.

A headline will look like "Suspect accused of assassinating President Xi of China, during an attempt to assassinate President trump"

How is the geopolitical diplomacy ever gonna work this out? Is the China tariffs gonna be tougher and make China even more mad and make them try to assasinate a US president? Or is the tariff gonna go away to ease the tensions, but then conservatives might be mad that he didn't go all tough on China.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Why couldn't you have a happy hypothetical where the world is rid of both of those assholes at the same time?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Because its funnier to see what trump does with China. Too tough and risk getting himself killed, too soft and his own base turns on him.

Also because its a hypothetical and I don't live in that timeline.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Inviting him is already too soft for what his base claimed to want. But they'll of ore anything he does

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If you get rid of the asshole we elected, you get an asshole we didn't elect. An asshole we didn't even have a voice on.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

True, the only positive about trump is he occasionally fucks shit up for his own evil handlers by being flighty