U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has invited Chinese President Xi Jinping to attend his inauguration next month, CBS reported, citing multiple sources.
The invitation signals an effort by Trump to court his Chinese counterpart on the heels of threats of fresh tariffs against the world’s second-largest economy.
Trump said in an interview with NBC’s Meet the Press that aired last weekend that he had communicated with Xi recently, but declined to say what they had discussed. They last met in person in June 2019 on the sidelines of the Group of 20 summit in Japan.
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