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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
John Bowden

Trump proudly shows China’s Xi his very public belittling of Joe Biden

Donald Trump proudly showed off his additions to the White House wall of presidents to a visiting Xi Jinping on Thursday, which under his domain has become a sideshow pathway used to attack two of his predecessors: Barack Obama and Joe Biden.

Xi was at the White House for the second day of a state visit to the United States, which began Wednesday with a red-carpet rollout at Maryland’s Joint Base Andrews, a welcome described as unduly “lavish” by some of the U.S. president’s critics on both sides of the aisle.

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