Wicker blasts Xi on Senate floor before Trump summit — SkimNews
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- Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) slammed Chinese President Xi Jinping on the Senate floor on Tuesday, ahead of Xi's summit with President Trump in Washington, D.C.
- Wicker said that had the White House asked him for "advice," he would have suggested President Trump "not in" — the quote was truncated in the available excerpt
Why it matters: A sitting Republican senator publicly attacking Xi on the Senate floor immediately before the Trump-Xi meeting signals that congressional GOP skepticism of Beijing will be a visible backdrop to the summit.
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