Posted on 11/10/2017 1:00:07 PM PST by ForYourChildren
President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump are reportedly being treated like royalty on their first official visit to China.
Trump and his wife were granted a rare dinner at the Forbidden City, an honor that has not been bestowed on a foreign leader since the founding of the People’s Republic of China 68 years ago, reports New York Daily News, as well as several other media outlets.
The president and first lady arrived in China, the third leg of Trump’s two-week Asia tour, Wednesday afternoon. After landing in Beijing, Trump and Melania toured the Forbidden City with Chinese President Xi Jinping and his wife Peng Liyuan.
The Forbidden City, a massive palace complex, was the residence of the imperial family for centuries. At this world-famous site, which was shut down for this special visit, the leaders of two of the world’s most powerful countries enjoyed a Peking Opera performance and a dinner together. Such treatment is notably different from what former President Barack Obama received on his farewell tour.
Obama was “snubbed” by the Chinese when he visited Beijing for the G-20 summit last year.
“Xi is going to treat Trump almost like an emperor,” Ming Wang, a professor of government and politics at George Mason University, told CNN, arguing that China “will give Trump an exceptional reception, essentially they’ll try to make Trump happy.”
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Obama was “snubbed” by the Chinese when he visited Beijing for the G-20 summit last year.
Liberal heads exploding - if they were to find out. Which they won’t, because the msm has to create a safespace for all their snowflakes.
“Barack Obama ‘deliberately snubbed’ by Chinese in chaotic arrival at G20”
“The US president was denied the usual red carpet welcome and forced to ‘go out of the ass’ of Air Force One, observers say”
When Obama did find his way on to a red carpet on the tarmac below there were heated altercations between US and Chinese officials, with one Chinese official caught on video shouting: “This is our country! This is our airport!”
“The reception that President Obama and his staff got when they arrived here Saturday afternoon was bruising, even by Chinese standards,” the New York Times reported.
Jorge Guajardo, Mexico’s former ambassador to China, said he was convinced Obama’s treatment was part of a calculated snub.
“These things do not happen by mistake. Not with the Chinese,” Guajardo, who hosted presidents Enrique Peña Nieto and Felipe Calderón during his time in Beijing, told the Guardian.
Yogi Bear gives Trump a Picnic Basket
I watched the arrival ceremony on YouTube, it was magnificent
Sinologists say that Chinese leadership is great at seducing foreign leadership.
-PJ
Some Chinese are saying that its actually about their President and Party Chair Xi Jinping representing himself to the public as a new Emperor of China, by hosting foreigners at the Forbidden City.
My god, Nick. Where does your hatred for Trump stop?
Ever?
The Chinese American community here love Trump.
I’m glad Trump received this honor, but in the back of my mind I’m thinking, what’s the catch?
The question is, why do you think my love for my country is bad? Suddenly, you are so P.C. that anyone who sticks up for the U.S. against China has violated your politically correct standards?
wrong thread, lol
lol
Just sayin’!
It is bad enough on Moore threads, do you have to put it here too?
Don’t be coy. You think China is snookering Trump, that Trump would be dumb enough to get snookered. You’ve been doing this crap ever since the election.
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