“I would not be throwing him a dinner”, Trump told O’Reilly.
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During his latest appearance on Fox News, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump told Bill O’Reilly that he did not believe China’s president, Xi Jinping, was deserving of his state dinner at the White House, scheduled for September. “I might get him a McDonald’s hamburger and say we’ve received to get right down to work as a result of you possibly can’t proceed to devalue”, he stated, in accordance with a transcript revealed by the Day by day Caller.
“Why would we be giving one of our highest things a president can do – and that is a state dinner for Xi Jinping, the head of China – at a time when all of these problems are pending out there?”
But the proposed breach of diplomatic protocol is nothing personal, it seems. When talked turned to “trade wars” between China and the United States, Trump called China’s leaders “intelligent”.
“Their leaders are clever”. “We need to disrupt and deter what our adversaries are doing in cyberspace, and that means you need a full range of tools to tailor a response”.
“The President travelled to China last fall and announced an historic climate change agreement with China, in which China, for the first time, made a public commitment, standing alongside the United States president to cap their carbon emissions”, he said.
Obama, he said, is also mindful of the sovereignty of China, which the US respects. “We lose to everyone”, he stated.
Meanwhile, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker has called on Obama to cancel the meeting for other reasons, pointing to the economic meltdown this week in China that sent shockwaves through global markets.
“So I think that’s just one example of why it’s important, particularly in this case, for the US president to engage with his Chinese counterpart”, the White House Press Secretary said.
Chinese language authorities haven’t responded to both comment.
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The state visit is still very much on.
