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Gates Cultivates a Decades-Long Relationship With China's Leadership, Hailed by Xi as an 'Old Friend'
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Over decades of Gates Foundation work in China, Bill Gates built unusually warm ties with the country's leadership. In June 2023 President Xi Jinping welcomed him to Beijing as an 'old friend' — a designation China reserves for favored foreigners — making Gates the first American business figure Xi had met privately in years. Xi had earlier thanked Gates personally for the foundation's COVID-19 funding. The closeness has drawn both praise as pragmatic engagement and criticism from those wary of legitimizing Beijing; Gates frames it as essential to global-health cooperation.
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