Chinese President Xi Jinping Declines Trump Inauguration Invitation

Chinese President Xi Jinping will not attend the inauguration ceremony of US President-elect Donald Trump. The Chinese ambassador and his wife are expected to attend the ceremony to be held on January 20. Other Beijing officials could also be involved, CBS reported. The inaugural officials have designated staff to handle diplomatic protocol at the festival.

We have Good Relationship with China: Trump

The Chinese Embassy in Washington has refused to comment on the matter. Trump Transition also did not respond to a request for comment, according to CBS News. Meanwhile, Trump said on Thursday morning that we have a good relationship with China. I also have a good relationship. We have been talking and discussing certain things with President Xi. He declined to go into detail and was not asked specifically about Xi and the inauguration.

Invitation Arrives During a Stressful Period

The invitation comes at an already tense time in U.S.-China relations. The U.S. intelligence community recently uncovered a far-reaching hack of eight U.S. telecommunications companies, assessing that Chinese actors had potentially accessed the metadata of millions of Americans, including high-ranking ones.

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