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A state banquet, selfies with Musk and Huang's noodle run: The spectacle of Trump's Beijing visit
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As the leaders of the world's two most powerful economies rekindled personal ties in Beijing on Thursday and Friday, with a cavalcade of American business leaders accompanying U.S. President Donald Trump, the Chinese capital turned into something of a spectacle.
Key facts
- Footage of Musk spinning in a circle while recording on his phone during a group photo, alongside Nvidia Jensen Huang, Apple's Tim Cook, and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, also went viral, racking
- The hashtag "Lei Jun and Musk photo together" drew more than 20 million views on Weibo
- Pei Lan, a 58-year-old Beijinger, described elbowing her way to the front for a photo
- Xiaomi CEO Lei Jun, a longtime admirer of Musk and one of the first owners of a Tesla Model S in China, was seen taking a selfie with the electric carmaker's CEO before the start of the state banquet
Summary
President Donald Trump, the Chinese capital turned into something of a spectacle. The visit, the first by a sitting U.S. president to China in nearly a decade, was full of friendly overtures, closely orchestrated pageantry, business dealmaking, and headline-grabbing sideshows that captivated audiences on both sides of the Pacific. It laid on brass bands and flower-waving schoolchildren at the airport, a state banquet at the Great Hall of the People, a private tour of the Temple of Heaven, and a closing garden stroll at Zhongnanhai - the walled compound where China's top leaders have worked and lived since 1949 - during which Chinese President Xi Jinping offered Trump rose seeds as a parting gift.
Crowds gathered along streets near the Four Seasons hotel and the Great Hall for a glimpse of Trump's motorcade.