"He has described Xi as an "old friend," and, during a 2015 interview with state news agency Xinhua, proudly displayed photographs of two meetings with the Chinese leader."

Another great choice! A fella proud to be friends with a dictator who systematically jails his citizens for expressing their God-given human rights. But Gov. Branstad no doubt prays to an another God. The God of the Dollar, or, in his case, the God of Corn and Soybeans.