Trump plans to greet Xi at airport on arrival, officials say

Trump plans to greet Xi at airport on arrival, officials say
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Summary Donald Trump plans to greet Chinese President Xi Jinping at Joint Base Andrews as Washington prepares for his White House visit next week.

WASHINGTON, Sept 18 (Reuters) - US President Donald ​Trump plans to greet Chinese President Xi ‌Jinping at Joint Base Andrews, at the airport of the military base just outside Washington, DC, on ​his arrival next week for a White ​House visit, a senior US official told reporters ⁠on Friday.

It is rare for the ​US president to greet visiting foreign leaders at ​the airport.

Senior US officials who briefed reporters about the visit said it will include an arrival ceremony ​inside the White House, a Rose Garden ​military review and a state dinner in the evening.

They said ‌among ⁠the guests for the dinner will be a number of tech CEOs, including Jeff Bezos of Amazon (AMZN.O), Sundar Pichai of Alphabet (GOOGL.O), ​Sam Altman of ​OpenAI, Tim ⁠Cook of Apple (AAPL.O), Elon Musk of Tesla (TSLA.O), Jensen Huang of Nvidia (NVDA.O), ​and Michael Dell of Dell Technologies (DELL.N).

Issues ​such ⁠as trade, flow of rare earths to the global economy and AI are expected to ⁠be ​among the topics that ​will be discussed during the visit, officials said. 

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