Prince William meets China’s president Xi Jinping
Posted by seumasach on March 2, 2015
as he invites Queen to visit Beijing
The meeting, by far the most heavyweight diplomatic mission the Duke has ever attempted, not only heralded a new beginning for relations between China and the Royal family, but also symbolised the extent to which Britain is desperate to court what will soon be the world’s biggest economy.
2nd March, 2015
His father the Prince of Wales famously referred to China’s leaders as “appalling old waxworks”, and has never been back to the country since.
But his son the Duke of Cambridge pulled off something of a diplomatic coup, and a major thawing of relations between Beijing and the Royal family, by gaining an unexpected audience with President Xi Jinping.
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