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The honor is the stairs. The work is still Nov. 10, magnets and chips.
- Touchdown shortly before 6 p.m. ET. Peng Liyuan with him. Cai Qi and Wang Yi on the trip.
- Trump and Melania waited at the steps. Handshake. Red carpet. Six F-16s and six F-22s lined on the field.
- Bloomberg. First U.S. president in about six decades to greet a foreign counterpart at Andrews, not counting a pope. Last comparable case cited: Kennedy and Macmillan in 1962.
- Xi did not meet Trump at the airport in Beijing in May. Washington is paying that courtesy back tonight.
- Thursday: White House arrival, Rose Garden inspection, bilateral meeting, state dinner with OpenAI, Google and Nvidia names on the guest list. Friday: tea. No side trips outside the capital. About 48 hours on the ground.
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