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WASHINGTON — Chinese President Xi Jinping will send a high-level envoy in his place to US President-elect Donald Trump 's Jan. 20 inauguration, the Financial Times reported on Thursday.Beijing has told Trump’s transition team that the official would attend instead of Xi, whom Trump had invited to attend, the report said, citing several people familiar with the situation. It said the envoy would also hold talks with Trump's team.
Trump extended the invitation to Xi last month, but experts said then it would be unprecedented for a leader of China, the top US geopolitical rival, to attend a US presidential inauguration and called it political theater.Trump said on Monday that he and Xi have been speaking through representatives and he believes the two leaders will get along in his second term.
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