Travel pool note #4 - WH details on tea
- From
- Danny KEMP
- Sent
- Friday, May 15, 2026 11:39 AM CST
WH on tea details and participants.
Pooler saw Rubio, Hegseth, Bessent, Greer
BILATERAL TEA INFORMATION:
BACKDROP: TEA ROOM
VENUE: CHUNYI ZHAI
FORMAT: BILATERAL TEA
INTERPRETATION: CONSECUTIVE
PARTICIPANTS:
PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP
David Perdue, United States Ambassador to
China
T.H. Marco Rubio, Secretary of State
T.H. Scott Bessent, Secretary of the Treasury
T.H. Pete Hegseth, Secretary of War
T.H. Jamieson Greer, United States Trade
Representative
President Xi Jinping
H.E. Cai Qi, Director of General Office of Central
Committee of the CCP
H.E. Wang Yi, Minister of Foreign Affairs
H.E. He Lifeng, Vice Premier of the State Council
H.E. Ma Zhaoxu, Deputy Minister of Foreign
Affairs
H.E. Xie Feng, Ambassador of the Peoples
Republic of China to the United States
BILATERAL LUNCH INFORMATION:
BACKDROP: CHUNOU ZHAI ARTWORK
VENUE: CHUNOU ZHAI
FORMAT: BILATERAL WORKING LUNCH
INTERPRETATION: CONSECUTIVE
Participants in the lunch are the same as the tea.
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