Biden is shown who's boss as China's Xi Jinping gets red carpet treatment while lame duck Joe goes low-key

President Joe Biden arrived successful Lima, Peru Thursday for his diplomatic swan opus – but it was China's President Xi Jinping who got a hero's welcome.

The Chinese person was treated to an elaborate reddish carpet ceremonial extracurricular the country's Government Palace, implicit with subject honors, sword-wielding troops successful formal uniforms, a subject band, and equestrians arsenic portion of an authoritative authorities visit.

Xi greeted Peruvian President Dina Boluarte and waived to greeters arsenic the 2 strode the reddish carpet into the ornate palace, connected a travel wherever they volition observe a monolithic Chinese infrastructure investment.

Biden, meanwhile, touched down aboard Air Force One astatine the country's Jorge Chavez planetary airport, with plans to be meetings Friday, wherever helium will huddle with leaders from the Asia-Pacific portion who person already switched their regard to the disorienting instrumentality of Donald Trump.

He was greeted by a subject cordon sporting bluish uniforms and achromatic gloves arsenic helium stepped disconnected the statesmanlike aircraft. Joining him connected the farewell diplomatic circuit was granddaughter Natalie Biden and girl Ashley.

Then, Biden greeted Peru's Prime Minister Gustavo Adrianzen and got into 'the Beast,' his statesmanlike limo. He slipped connected his Ray Bans, and drove toward his upscale edifice and called it a night.

Biden has agelong prided himself connected the the benignant of idiosyncratic diplomacy that gets forged astatine planetary gatherings similar the yearly APEC summit. Now, helium faces chap leaders aft having his enactment swept from powerfulness by the antheral helium called a menace to American democracy.

With conscionable 2 months to spell successful his term, Biden is simply a 'super lame duck' being overshadowed some by his returning nemesis helium had vowed to decision and the imposing fig of China's Xi Jinping.

The Trump origin is moving truthful beardown that satellite leaders are trading notes connected their enactment with the returning president. Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese spoke to Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto astir his caller chat with Trump.

'He had a telephone speech with President Trump, arsenic I did past week, truthful we discussed that and what it mightiness mean for the world,' helium told reporters. 'Obviously, that's portion of the backdrop of APEC and the G20 is what the interaction of a alteration successful US Administration volition have.'

Biden is set to conscionable Xi connected the sidelines of the meetings connected Saturday. But Xi, whose state has eclipsed the U.S. arsenic Peru's apical trading partner, was already making his value known.

The 2 governments had scheduled a expansive opening of a monolithic China-financed Chancay larboard task timed to the commencement of the summit. It was acceptable to unfastened conscionable minutes aft Biden touched down successful the Peruvian capital. In Washington, the monolithic task is viewed with suspicion, and officials are eyeing it for imaginable subject applications.

'We request to jointly physique and negociate good the Chancay port, marque "from Chancay to Shanghai" genuinely go a prosperous way to promoting the associated improvement of China-Peru, and China- Latin America,' Xi wrote successful an op-ed successful the local El Peruano newspaper.

With Xi besides holding an authoritative authorities sojourn with Peru, helium got an elaborate welcoming ceremonial arsenic helium met Peru's President Dina Boluarte astatine the authorities palace.

The U.S. wants to negociate the narration 'through this delicate play of modulation wherever we privation to support a grade of stability,' White House National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan told reporters.

Trump was flexing his muscles backmost successful D.C. and Florida by daring Senate Republicans to defy his nominee to beryllium lawyer general, erstwhile Rep. Matt Gaetz, who was battling a House Ethics Committee probe of enactment trafficking allegations. 

With each the geopolitical tensions astatine play, determination were besides information ones. The leaders gathered a time aft a termination bomber armed with explosives blew himself up a the Brazilian Supreme Court in Brasilia, days earlier the G20 leaders including Biden are acceptable to conscionable successful Rio de Janeiro. 

There was already choky information successful Lima, where Biden is conscionable 1 of 21 leaders attending the Asia Pacific Economic Conference. Peruvian authorities person enactment 15,000 constabulary and soldiers connected the streets, amid protests implicit nationalist safety.

Students person been kept location for ‘remote’ classes, and radical person been asked to telework to escaped up immoderate of the Peruvian capital’s notorious traffic. Protesters who person been raising concerns astir nationalist information and pack shakedowns person clashed with constabulary successful riot cogwheel extracurricular the summit.

Armored constabulary vehicles person been establishing a beingness successful immoderate of the city's astir visited neighborhoods, and instrumentality enforcement and information guards are taking conspicuous positions extracurricular hotels hosting visiting delegations. 

The 81-year-old lame duck president brought along granddaughter Natalie, days aft attending an lawsuit to memorialize her precocious father, Beau successful Biden's hometown of Claymont, Delaware. Natalie is Beau's lone daughter.

'Not lone is helium a lame duck, but a ace lame duck due to the fact that his successor is going to person precise antithetic policies,' Erin Murphy, of the Center for Strategic and International Studies told the AP. 

Also coming on for the thrust is erstwhile Sen. Chris Dodd, a longtime person and erstwhile workfellow who is his peculiar advisor for the Americas. 

Biden joins the league contempt telling allies astatine the Munich information league successful 2021 that 'America is back; the trans-Atlantic confederation is back. And we are not looking backward. We are looking guardant together.'

'He promised that America is backmost and alternatively Donald Trump is back,' mused Richard Haass, the former president of the Council connected Foreign Relations, connected CNN.

Also connected pat is simply a gathering with Japan's caller Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, positive South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol, arsenic the Democratic president has tried to fortify the ties betwixt Japan and South Korea to counterweight a rising China. 

Ishiba reportedly wants to conscionable with Trump successful the States earlier helium heads backmost to Japan.

During a property telephone organized by the Biden Administration, a elder medication authoritative batted down question aft question from reporters wanting to cognize however Trump's stunning predetermination triumph would interaction the acme oregon undermine Biden's message.

'I’ll notation you to the incoming medication connected immoderate questions connected what they mean to do. We truly can’t remark connected that,' was 1 saltation of the reply.