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Travel pool note #4 - WH details on tea

From
Danny KEMP
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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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