The US and China have been rivals for almost 80 years, but when the countries' leaders met in Beijing on Thursday, Xi Jinping made reference to a far more ancient feud.

Nine years after his last meeting with Xi Jinping in China, Donald Trump is more aggressive and assertive. But so is Beijing. And its president is ready to take the geopolitical…

As the meeting for underway Trump said that he and Xi had ‘known each other for a long time’ and that Xi was a ‘great leader’