‘Red car­pet for a despot’: Trump’s lav­ish Xi wel­come col­lides with GOP anti-com­mu­nism mes­sage

<div>'Red carpet for a despot': Trump's lavish Xi welcome collides with GOP anti-communism message</div>

As Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump’s sum­mit with Chi­nese Pres­i­dent Xi Jin­ping comes to its end, some Repub­li­cans aren’t hap­py with the red car­pet treat­ment the face of the Chi­nese Com­mu­nist Par­ty (CCP) received.“Quite frankly, had the White House asked me for advice, I would have sug­gest­ed the pres­i­dent not invite Xi Jin­ping to Wash­ing­ton for such a lav­ish wel­come here in the Unit­ed States of Amer­i­ca, based on all of the trou­bling issues we have with Pres­i­dent Xi and the Chi­nese Com­mu­nist Par­ty,” Sen. Roger Wick­er, R‑Miss., said.Wicker, who chairs the Sen­ate Armed Ser­vices Com­mit­tee, has been one of the more vocal Repub­li­cans about his dis­dain for the meetin …