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Xi Jinping arrives in Washington for three-day visit, greeted by Trump at Joint Base Andrews

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Chinese President Xi Jinping begins a three-day trip to the United States, where he is met at Joint Base Andrews by former President Donald Trump in a break from protocol, before traveling to Washington by motorcade with his wife Peng Liyuan.

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Xi Jinping's visit marks a high-level diplomatic engagement between the US and China, following prior interactions where protocol norms were observed differently.

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On this first day of Xi’s three-day trip, he will be met at the Joint Base Andrews military airstrip by Trump himself, in an extraordinary break from protocol that Xi did not afford the American president in May. Xi and China’s first lady, Peng Liyuan, will then travel into the US capital by motorcade.

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Reporting by Teresa Frontado, Mark Magnier, Lucy Quaggin, Nayan Seth, Han Li, Vincent Chow, Holly Chik, Sigi Ji, Dewey Sim. All times given in blog entries are Eastern Time (UTC-5, HKT-13).

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