CHINA'S leader, Xi Jinping, welcomed Donald Trump on the American president's first visit to Beijing like a Chinese emperor receiving a barbarian potentate, with a mixture of flattery and disdain. The government closed to the public the 9,000-room Forbidden City-the vermilion-walled former imperial palace at the heart of Beijing-so the visitor could have his own tour and dinner there. The courtiers of the Communist Party have lost little of the ancient art of feigned deference.
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