Chinese President Xi Jinping will not attend President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration, but he is sending Vice President Han Zheng as his special representative.

Trump has said he has a "warm spot" for the app, a distinct change of heart after his first administration first called for a ban on TikTok.

Vice President Han Zheng, China’s representative at Donald Trump’s inauguration on Monday, is a trusted adviser to President Xi Jinping, a long-time survivor of Chinese politics who rose from toiling on a collective farm and in factories to becoming one of the most powerful people in the country.

Chinese President Xi Jinping will not attend President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration, but he is sending Vice President Han Zheng as his special representative.Related video above: Tech CEOs ...

Han Zheng, Chinese President Xi Jinping’s envoy at Trump’s Inauguration, discussed fentanyl, trade, and technology with Vance and Musk.

Chinese leader Xi Jinping may not have personally accepted US President-elect Donald Trump’s invitation to his inauguration, but Beijing has taken the rare step of dispatching a top official to join the swearing-in ceremony in Washington.

Enforcing strict discipline shouldn’t fuel a climate of fear that saps the can-do spirit that once helped power China’s economic rise.

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Jake Sullivan, the national security adviser, said in an interview that “we’ve just stuck with our theory, which is managed competition.” Trump and Xi Jinping might have other plans.

On January 14, the United States and the Pashinyan regime signed a strategic partnership agreement in Washington DC. According to the document, signed by Pashinyan’s Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan and US State Secretary Antony Blinken,

President-elect Donald Trump said on Friday he spoke to China's Xi Jinping about TikTok and other issues as he prepares to take office in a matter of days.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., nominated by President-elect Donald Trump for Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), is actively seeking support from Senate Democrats for his upcoming confirmation hearings.