Trump-Xi Meeting: Beijing Trip Ends with Zhongnanhai Tour
Trump said trade talks with China went better than last time, while Beijing signaled behind-the-scenes efforts to push Iran toward negotiations.
- On Friday, President Donald Trump spent his final morning in Beijing touring Zhongnanhai, the highly secretive leadership compound of China's Communist Party where only a handful of American leaders have ever entered.
- Xi Jinping chose the location to thank Trump for hosting him at Mar-a-Lago in Florida in 2017, decades after Chairman Mao Zedong established the site as the center of political power following the Communist Party's victory.
- During their stroll, Jinping pointed out trees about 490 years old and others over 1,000 years old, while at one point encouraging Trump to touch the trees and voicing appreciation for the garden's centuries-long history.
- Only a handful of American leaders have visited: President Richard Nixon toured in 1972, President George W. Bush entered thirty years later, and Former President Barack Obama visited in 2014 to tour the isolated Yingtai artificial island.
- Today, the 1,500-acre site boasts repurposed pavilions and temples, as Mao deliberately avoided the Forbidden City for his office to distance the new Republic from China's failed imperial system and align with Communist Party ideology.
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Why Xi took Trump on a rare tour to Zhongnanhai, China's most secretive power hub
Chinese President Xi Jinping took US President Donald Trump inside Zhongnanhai, China’s tightly guarded Communist Party leadership compound, after talks on Taiwan, trade, Iran and Indo-Pacific tensions. The Zhongnanhai trip was significant against the backdrop of Trump’s first China visit in nearly nine years.
Local 3 News
U.S. President Donald Trump spent his last morning in Beijing in Zhongnanhai, a highly airtight and strictly guarded precinct of the leadership of the ruling Communist Party of China.
The Independent
The Independent (US)Trump told he and Putin are rare visitors to Beijing’s secretive compound
Donald Trump appeared to be pleased to join the limited number of world leaders who have been invited into a secretive imperial garden in China. Xi Jinping granted the US president a tour of the walled-off Zhongnanhai compound as Trump concluded his state visit on Friday, 15 May. When asked whether he brings other foreign leaders to the garden, Xi told Trump: "Very few. We usually don’t hold diplomatic events here. Even after we started having s…
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