Trump to meet China's Xi in Florida next week

[nitpicker]

Source: BBC

Trump to meet China's Xi in Florida next week

1 hour ago

From the section China

China has confirmed the dates of President Xi Jinping's trip to the US to meet his counterpart Donald Trump. They will meet at Mr Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida on 6 and 7 April. Trade will be a major issue for the leaders of the world's two biggest economies, as will the thorny matter of North Korea.

Ties got off to a rocky start when Mr Trump took a call from Taiwan's president, but eased when the US leader reaffirmed the "One China" policy. The long-standing policy states that there is only one Chinese government, something Mr Trump had threatened in the past and which was further called into question when the US president broke with diplomatic norms in December to accept a call from the president of Taiwan, Tsai Ing-wen. 00China regards Taiwan as a breakaway province and lodged a protest after the call.
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North Korea will also be a key issue. Mr Trump has said that China "has done little to help" in countering the belligerence of North Korea, a country he said in a tweet was "behaving very badly" and had been "playing the United States for years".
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[nitpicker]

1. TV viewing time?

Since this is Thursday and Friday of the Masters, Drump may not be playing golf until Saturday.

[WePurrsevere]

5. I'm surprised he's not going down for the whole week to watch but...

I guess the final days are the most important and the meeting with China's president is a good excuse to go down earlier.

Hopefully China's president likes golf too because I suspect Trump's attention will be rather divided and insulting China's president would not be wise.

His use of an insecure privately owned by him commercial resort for government meetings really should be a bigger issue IMO.

[luvMIdog]

2. omg I so hope he isn't going to be a giant asshole & get us into shit with China

[AgadorSparticus]

3. Interesting that he always meets with diplomats whose country he wants to do business with

Down in Florida....he is afraid of getting caught about something.

[C_U_L8R]

6. And he has every room bugged

I don't think Trump likes the White House very much.
Not enough faux-gold and too many ghosts looking
over his shoulder.

[AgadorSparticus]

11. Yep. He can run but he can't hide.

[Tanuki]

13. And he doesn't have to disclose who comes and goes.

[C_U_L8R]

14. Like the Russian Shower Team?

[RoadhogRidesAgain]

4. Trump meeting with a big dog now

Hopefully he learns something about being a leader of a country.

[NBachers]

7. I see this as a logistical and security nightmare. I don't have good feelings about this.

I think it's a mistake to have it down there.

[sinkingfeeling]

8. More money into the Trump treasury. Everybody's got to

stay in Florida, while the White House, scene of many diplomatic meetings, sits vacant.

This makes my blood boil.

[yallerdawg]

10. We have an entire city designed to impress and intimidate foreign dignitaries...

and this ignorant, self-indulgent, incompetent, unqualified buffoon wants to take the premier of China to an obscure fake Disneyland attraction.

My blood is boiling, too.

[ananda]

9. China is in the business markets with the Trumps

Kushner stands to make 400 million.

As for Taiwan, well ...

[LuckyLib]

12. Xi Jinping should go from Florida to DC, telling Trump "I have some important

people to meet with there." Then do it - trade folks, economists, cultural attaches, etc.