From Fox News:
President-elect Trump took China by surprise when he invited President Xi Jinping to his upcoming inauguration, a friendly gesture ahead of a widely expected trade war.
The move left everyone wondering what Trump was up to — a Chinese head of state has not attended a U.S. inauguration in all of history. But the invitation comes as the U.S. intelligence community disclosed a massive hack of eight U.S. telecom companies, finding that Chinese hackers had accessed the data of millions of Americans, including Vice President-elect JD Vance. Information about their phone calls and texts was intercepted. Meanwhile, a Chinese national was arrested on suspicion of flying a drone over Vandenberg Space Force base in Northern California, the Department of Justice said Wednesday. “Many people were disappointed by this invitation,” said China expert Gordon Chang.