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Miranda Devine: Trump’s crafty ‘Commie Week’ diplomacy with Mamdani and Xi

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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.

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Even his belligerence toward ­Canada is partly designed to........

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