US president-elect Joe Biden shakes hands with nine-year-old Gao Shan during his visit to the Chinese village of Yanzikou in 2001. Photo: AP
Joe Biden: Chinese villagers remember president-elect’s 2001 visit
- America’s new leader handed out ice pops to children and chatted with villagers in Yanzikou during his visit as chairman of the Senate foreign relations committee
- Local man remembers Biden telling him as a nine-year-old how he might become China’s leader one day
US president-elect Joe Biden shakes hands with nine-year-old Gao Shan during his visit to the Chinese village of Yanzikou in 2001. Photo: AP
