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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.

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 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 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.