Xi: We call ourselves descendants of the dragon

Chinese President Xi Jinping and his wife Peng Liyuan invited US President Donald Trump and his wife Melania Trump to the Palace Museum, also known as the Forbidden City, after the US president started his state visit to China on Wednesday afternoon. During the tour, Xi briefed the visiting couple on the history, architecture and culture of the museum, noting its importance to Chinese history and culture. Xi said that “Chinese civilization is a unique lasting culture in the world that passed down through generations consistently.” Xi added, “We call ourselves descendants of the dragon.”

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[Anonymous-ksmk]

I love how he looked at him unbelievablely for two seconds there and then laughs and says that’s great. Just like a true American movie scene.

[morali]

Trump: "We call ourselves the descendants of the Burger"

[JamesZero]

"we call ourselves, 'The Descendants of the Dragons'"
Trump: lol, thats a good one

[FF]

Always listening, always understanding

[aaronh]

Xi: China has a history of 5000 years.
Trump: I said the word China for 5000 times.

[countryboy]

First time I see Xi is talking comfortably to a western leader.

[orasis]

Xi talked to him like an Asian parent about the Chinese culture being the longest lasting. 😂😂

[AckzaTV]

thats great....david will love this one

[michenerpark]

Australian : We call ourselves the descendants of British prisoners. Scott Morrison found his ancestor's criminal record in UK during G7 meeting.

[awarriorx]

Trump: I’m the descendant of "nobody knows better than me"

[accbcell]

In ancient Chinese history literature and ancient myths, , after tribe leader Huang defeated other tribes and unified most tribes in that region (core areas of Chinese civilisation), he used the totem dragon (not the Western ones with wings and dinosaurs-like depicted in their mythology). That’s one of the reason Chinese called themselves as ‘descendants of the dragon’ (representing Emperor Huang, the first ‘emperor’ of a ‘unified country’ in the modern sense)
Records of those periods could only be found in ancient Chinese literature (there were no written language until many many years later, so information about that period was just passed on to the next generation by oral words), so it was second-hand… but if you kind of believe in the very very ancient Chinese history books (that started to collect/record the ancient stories), then Emperor Huang’s period dated back to around 2711 BC. And before this ‘first emperor’ ‘formed’ a ‘unified country’ (prototype of China), there were already tribes living in that area (coined China later), so it could be older than 4700 years.
That’s why President Xi said the age of (a unified) Chinese civilisation was 5000 years old.

[yfhpcge]

As soon as Donald Trump heard :- descendants of dragons .. 😂😂😂😂😂 ..
All that he could do was to laugh 😂😂😂😂

[bobobounlosode]

I think this is the best approach a president can have toward a different culture, he was showing interest and respect

[kaitoshiki]

*Fun Fact*

Trump has said China more times than the total number of Chinese people throughout history

[RedRanchu]

You could tell Xi liked talking to him

[cgdBst]

Xi : we call ourselves descendants of the dragon
Trump: I'm a descendant of an orange

[IRV]

Good old times when western leader actually wanted to create peace and relations with the opposing powers...

[usfzxnx]

Trump:“I am The knowing King.Nobody knows China better than me.”

[stephenlee]

“Now all of China knows you are here” Mulan Haha!

[trilingualkid]

Xi: We call ourselves descendants of the dragon
Trump: and I a donut...