Miranda Devine: Trumps crafty Commie Week diplomacy with Mamdani and Xi
It’s Commie Week for President Trump.First it was New York’s unlovely Mayor Mamdani Trump did the great honor of visiting at Gracie Mansion on Monday.Then on Wednesday the president rolled out the literal red carpet for another Communist dictator, President Xi Jinping of China.Donald Trump and the first lady warmly greeted Xi and his wife, Peng Liyuan, when they alighted from their plane at Joint Base Andrews and strolled together companionably down the red carpet as a 21-gun salute sounded, followed by the national anthems of both nations.Trump could not resist sending a US Air Force jet overhead to buzz Xi as a prelude to Thursday’s promised spectacular military flyover of F-22 fighters and a B-2 bomber before their Oval Office talks and state dinner.Let’s hope the impressive military show of force is matched by equal resolve behind closed doors.Despite Trump’s elaborate courtesies toward Xi, he clearly has no illusions about China’s mal-intent as it seeks to dislodge America’s geopolitical primacy.The president has moved craftily and decisively in his second term to dislodge China’s sneaky footholds in America’s neighborhood.The Greenland security deal he signed at the UN on Tuesday blocks China from establishing bases and exerting influence in America’s Arctic north.
He’s forced Chinese port operators out of the Panama Canal and has taken majority control of the Venezuelan oil that Beijing had its eyes on.Even his belligerence toward Canada is partly designed to extract our weak northern neighbor from China’s embrace.While Melania Trump takes Madame Peng on a visit to the national art museum, Republican hawks like Sen.
Tom Cotton want Trump to lay down the law in the Oval Office and tell Xi to stop stealing our AI models and stop threatening its neighbors like Taiwan and Japan.Trump could also keep pestering Xi to release Jimmy Lai, the Hong Kong publisher, from detention.It’s a joke that Democrats are now posing as China hawks aft...