Prince Charles at Chinese new year celebrations in London in 2015. He is reaching out to Beijing this week with an unusual gift REUTERSThe Prince of Wales will seek to end decades of enmity with China this week with a gesture likely to strike a chord with the regime. Prince Charles will attend a concert with Chinese officials at the Royal College of Music, where he will publicly loan a rare musical instrument given to him by President Xi Jinping on his state visit to the UK in 2015. A music student playing Prince Charles’s guzhengThe guzheng — a traditional string instrument — was presented to the prince when he and the Duchess of Cornwall hosted the Chinese president and his wife, Peng Liyuan, at Clarence House for tea. He had previously avoided participating in visits by Chinese dignitaries, because of his views on the country’s treatment of Tibet and its human rights record.

Source: The Times March 05, 2017 00:03 UTC