Presidents

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Invitation to a Ceremony at the White House

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Table Setting for the State Dinner For Chinese President Xi Jinping

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Chinese President Xi Jinping and Madame Peng Liyuan with President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama before a State Dinner

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President Barack Obama and President Xi Jinping Leave the Oval Office

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President Barack Obama and Pope Francis at the White House arrival ceremoy

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Pope Francis at President Obama at the White House arrival ceremony

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President and Mrs. Bush with President Hu Jintao and Madame Liu Yongqing

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President and Mrs. Obama say Goodbye to President Hu Jintao

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History of China State Visits to the White House

On January 29, 1979, President Jimmy Carter and First Lady Rosalynn Carter received Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping and his wife, Madame Zhuo Lin, for an official visit to Washington D.C. The occasion marked the highest-ranking Chinese visitor to the White House since Madame Chiang Kai-shek visited in 1943.