During President Nixon's visit to China, First Lady Pat Nixon remarked to Zhou Enlai that pandas were adorable. Zhou immediately promised to gift two pandas, initiating US-China panda diplomacy.
President Jimmy Carter hosted then-Chinese Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping and his wife Zhuo Lin. First Lady Rosalynn Carter meticulously prepared a bilingual Chinese-English calligraphy menu and a performance at the Kennedy Center.
During Chinese President Xi Jinping's visit to the White House, US First Lady Michelle Obama accompanied Xi's wife, Peng Liyuan, to the Washington Zoo to name a four-week-old panda cub.
President Trump invited Xi Jinping and Peng Liyuan to a summit at the Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, where First Lady Melania Trump took Peng Liyuan to visit the Bak Middle School of the Arts.
But one of the threads of connectivity between all first ladies, from Martha Washington, our first, until our current first lady Melania Trump, is this issue of diplomacy, of being the Americans' representative to people around the world, being the person who hosts, you know, foreign guests and foreign leaders in particular to the White House. And so the diplomacy function, a soft power, if you will, is very important.星期四在两位总统开始双边会谈之后,第一夫人梅拉尼亚将带彭丽媛参观史密森尼国家亚洲艺术博物馆,晚上将在白宫东厅举行国宴。