BRUSSELS: Chinese leader Xi Jinping began a three-day visit to Belgium on Sunday on the last leg of his European tour that will include meeting the Belgian royals and seeing giant pandas ahead of a historic European Union (EU) visit, the first ever by a Chinese president.

Xi was welcomed at the airport by Belgian Prime Minister Elio Di Rupo and he is set to go to the royal palace in central Brussels to meet Belgium’s King Philippe and Queen Mathilde.

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