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State visits are a mix of political and business meetings, alongside royal pageantry and a diplomatic red-carpet welcome, with a banquet, military parade and carriage rides.

That suggests a last-minute scramble for leverage ahead of the president’s potential meeting with China’s leader Xi Jinping at a summit in South Korea at the end of the month.

However, his latest statements suggest it could just be a negotiating tactic ahead of a potential meeting with China’s leader Xi Jinping.

Specifically, he chided some for showing up late—or not showing up at all—to player-only meetings.

This was a subject originally discussed at that very first meeting.