Chinese President Xi Jinping, in the message issued during the 75th anniversary of the UN, in September.
In November 2017, Donald Trump visited Beijing and Chinese President Xi Jinping accompanied him in the Forbidden City.
Faced with the usual reference to the millenary condition of China, Trump objected: "But the Egyptian civilization was older."
Xi's answer settled the debate: China is the only surviving civilization today after 5,000 years ...
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