Xi Jinping welcomes Bill Gates as ‘first American friend’ to visit Beijing this year

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Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates was welcomed as an "old friend" when he met with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday at Beijing’s Diaoyutai state guesthouse. Photo courtesy Chinese Foreign Ministry/Twitter June 16 (UPI) -- Chinese President Xi Jinping held talks with Bill Gates in Beijing on Friday saying the co-founder of Microsoft was the "first American friend" he had met in the capital this year. The president told Gates that the people were the foundation and hope for friendly China-U.S. ties, Foreign Ministry spokesman Hua Chunying said in a Twitter post. Advertisement "The world is emerging from the COVID-19 pandemic,...