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16:39, 08-Nov-2017
Xi and Trump have afternoon tea at Forbidden City
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Chinese President Xi Jinping and his wife Peng Liyuan welcomed their US counterparts, Donald and Melania Trump, with afternoon tea at Beijing's Forbidden City on Wednesday.
Trump and his wife arrived in the capital on Wednesday afternoon.
They had afternoon tea in the Baoyun Building, also known as the Hall of Embodied Treasures, in the southwestern corner of the Forbidden City.
Chinese President Xi Jinping and his wife Peng Liyuan welcome US President Donald Trump and his wife Melania Trump at the Palace Museum, or the Forbidden City, in Beijing, capital of China, on November 8, 2017. They had an informal afternoon tea in the Baoyun Building in the southwestern corner of the Forbidden City. / Xinhua Photo.
Chinese President Xi Jinping and his wife Peng Liyuan welcome US President Donald Trump and his wife Melania Trump at the Palace Museum, or the Forbidden City, in Beijing, capital of China, on November 8, 2017. They had an informal afternoon tea in the Baoyun Building in the southwestern corner of the Forbidden City. / Xinhua Photo.
Xi thanked the Trumps for their kind reception at the Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida when he visited the United States in April and wished them a pleasant stay in China.
With a tablet computer, Trump showed Xi and Peng video clips of his granddaughter, Arabella Kushner, singing in Mandarin and reciting part of the Three-Character Classic and ancient Chinese poems.
Xi spoke highly of the child's Chinese skills and said her performance deserves an "A+".
Arabella is already a child star in China, said Xi, adding that he hoped she would visit China in the future.
Built in 1915, the Baoyun Building is a Western-style architecture in the former imperial compound. It was used to store antiques, but now serves as an exhibition hall.
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Source(s): Xinhua News Agency