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Donald Trump gave Xi Jinping a rare tarmac welcome outside Washington on Wednesday, with a red carpet and B-1 bombers flying overhead, ahead of Thursday's state dinner. As a candidate, Trump attacked big state dinners for China, once saying "we should be eating a hamburger on a conference table". Now he says he wishes the dinner, full of tech and banking chiefs, had more seats.
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