President Donald Trump on May 14 publicly agreed with Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s suggestion that the United States had become a “declining nation,” and made clear that Xi was describing the country Joe Biden left behind, not the one Trump now leads.
“He was referring to the tremendous damage we suffered during the four years of Sleepy Joe Biden and the Biden Administration, and on that score, he was 100 percent correct,” Trump wrote on Truth Social from Beijing, where the two leaders were holding a two-day summit.
Trump’s reading tracks closely with how the Chinese leader has framed global affairs throughout the Biden era. At a January 2021 Central Party School study session for senior cadres, Xi reportedly told them that “the East is rising and the West is declining.”…
Trump Says Xi’s ‘Declining Nation’ Reference Was About Biden-Era America
