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That area where it does have leverage. it will not because it has no reason to do so the u.s. has no real instruments to force china to change its approach china has been very successful with this approach in the past and although there has been a lot of rhetoric in the u.s. the trump complaint was very much about china is stealing our jobs. nothing really has happened and as long as the u.s. doesn't have any real policies that would be really threatening to china's core interests china has no intention to change its course and no reason really and how is china viewing this visit i mean they r...

Correspondent for nbc, chris jansing. let's talk about how president strumptrump was greeted in china. >> well, ayman, i guess you could say they're rolling out the red carpet the chinese are calling this a state visit plus. officially, it's reciprocity, kind of a thank you to president trump for the hospitality he showed to xi jinping when he came to florida and was hosted at mar-a-lago. unofficially, they're stroking the ego of this president from whom they want so much. and clearly, president xi seeing himself at least on equal footing having come off his party's congress with at least five...

Frankly pretty tight. remember the mar-a-lago summit in florida back last year or end of the year when the two of them were sort of together, they were building this relationship, raised eyebrows then just given xi's status in china and how early the president was meeting with him, but i do think you're going to see what is being called this state visit plus. so tons of pomp and circumstance, tons of pageantry, the president likes that, you know, the president loves the lavish warm welcome. you saw that here at the blue house in seoul. you will see that to an exponentially degree when he gets ...

Around the world, i've not seen this before, the focus is entirely on the personality of the president. they try to figure out how do you get to president trump, how do you woo him, seduce him. because he doesn't have a strong policy in one way or another. if he falls in love with you, that's going to be great. if he falls out of love with you, it's going to be bad. so they are all trying to impress him personally. i think the forbidden city is that. trump likes pomp and circumstance. he likes to be flattered. they said it's going to be a state visit plus, meaning they will go beyond, because ...

China. remarkable what a red carpet and a few brass bands will do. >> reporter: stunning, isn't it? it's not unusual for a president once he becomes president to shift tone from the campaign trail, but this is such a dramatic about-face and very much different from what we've seen from every other american president. in fact, rex tillerson, secretary of state, was briefing reporters yesterday and was trying to suggest this was more tongue in cheek, that what the president was trying to say about trade was this wasn't just about president xi, it was something that had developed over the course ...