Xi Jinping Lands In US For Key State Visit, Trump Receives Him

US President Donald Trump treated Chinese President Xi Jinping to a rare personal airport welcome Wednesday, kicking off a pomp-filled state visit aimed at smoothing superpower tensions on everything from AI and trade to Iran.Trump and First Lady Melania shook hands with Xi and his wife Peng Liyuan after the Chinese president descended from his plane at Joint Base Andrews, a US military airfield outside Washington.Trump, wearing a long coat and gloves, and Xi then stood side by side on the tarmac as a military band played, before two B-1 bombers staged a noisy flyover.The personal airport greeting -- a courtesy Trump was notably denied when he visited Beijing in May -- begins three days of pageantry that will include another flyover and a state banquet at the White House on Thursday.Six F-22 fighter jets and six F-16s were lined up on the tarmac in an apparent display of military…