Published: 8:22am, 17 Jan 2025Updated: 9:08am, 17 Jan 2025
China says it will send Vice-President Han Zheng to attend Donald Trump’s inauguration ceremony on Monday.
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The announcement was made by China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Friday, three days before president-elect Trump’s inauguration.
Han’s visit would mark the first time a senior Chinese leader has attended a US presidential inauguration.
Trump had invited Chinese President Xi Jinping to attend the ceremony, according to media reports in November.
“We are willing to strengthen dialogue and communication with the new US administration, properly manage differences, expand cooperation and jointly push for sustainable development of stable and healthy China-US relations, and find out a correct way of engagement in the New Era,” reads the Friday statement by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
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In recent years, Chinese authorities have sent the vice president or other senior officials to attend the inaugurations of various state leaders.