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Then Vice President Xi Jinping of
the People's Republic of China and
Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad raised
their glasses in a toast at a State
Dinner at the state Capitol on
February 15, 2012 in Des Moines,
Iowa [Photo/Getty Images]
Trump eventually sealed his Until late 2016, Branstad’s political
hostile takeover of the national ambition never publicly strayed to
Republican Party and steamrolled Washington, D.C., let alone all the
back through Iowa as a nominee with way here.
an enthusiastic Branstad stamp of
approval. The only Mandarin he speaks is
hello, ni hao, and thank you, xie xie.
Meanwhile, it was just five years ago Branstad was steadily (But he has at his disposal veteran
that the world at large realized that plowing familiar embassy staffer James Brown, who has
Branstad was a rare “old friend” to Xi. political ground as interpreted for every U.S. president
the longest-serving since Jimmy Carter.)
In 2012, the two toasted each other governor in U.S.
beneath the golden dome of the Iowa history, racking up Nobody saw that the most significant
State Capitol at a lavish state dinner — development of his long political career
27 years after the two first met when 8,169 days in office would be neither the 1980s farm crisis
Xi was a young Communist official nor any other agricultural or domestic
touring Iowa farms, factories and trend, but the rising influence of China
living rooms as his introduction to in the Pacific.
America.
Striking a balance in Asia is widely
As Xi was rapidly climbing the craved at a time when North Korean
Communist ladder of power, Branstad is test-launching ballistic missiles
was steadily plowing familiar political over Japan and taunts the U.S. with an
ground as the longest-serving governor “immense volley of nuclear fire.”
in U.S. history, racking up 8,169 days
in office. Branstad himself continually refers to
North Korea as “the biggest threat to
humankind.”
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the People's Republic of China and
Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad raised
their glasses in a toast at a State
Dinner at the state Capitol on
February 15, 2012 in Des Moines,
Iowa [Photo/Getty Images]
Trump eventually sealed his Until late 2016, Branstad’s political
hostile takeover of the national ambition never publicly strayed to
Republican Party and steamrolled Washington, D.C., let alone all the
back through Iowa as a nominee with way here.
an enthusiastic Branstad stamp of
approval. The only Mandarin he speaks is
hello, ni hao, and thank you, xie xie.
Meanwhile, it was just five years ago Branstad was steadily (But he has at his disposal veteran
that the world at large realized that plowing familiar embassy staffer James Brown, who has
Branstad was a rare “old friend” to Xi. political ground as interpreted for every U.S. president
the longest-serving since Jimmy Carter.)
In 2012, the two toasted each other governor in U.S.
beneath the golden dome of the Iowa history, racking up Nobody saw that the most significant
State Capitol at a lavish state dinner — development of his long political career
27 years after the two first met when 8,169 days in office would be neither the 1980s farm crisis
Xi was a young Communist official nor any other agricultural or domestic
touring Iowa farms, factories and trend, but the rising influence of China
living rooms as his introduction to in the Pacific.
America.
Striking a balance in Asia is widely
As Xi was rapidly climbing the craved at a time when North Korean
Communist ladder of power, Branstad is test-launching ballistic missiles
was steadily plowing familiar political over Japan and taunts the U.S. with an
ground as the longest-serving governor “immense volley of nuclear fire.”
in U.S. history, racking up 8,169 days
in office. Branstad himself continually refers to
North Korea as “the biggest threat to
humankind.”
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