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US President Donald Trump speaks next to first lady Melania Trump after meeting with police at the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department in the wake of the mass shooting in Las Vegas, Nevada, October 4, 2017. [Photo/Agencies]

For the president and any other political leader in the US or other countries who do not have much knowledge of 皇冠体育app, it is important to get to know the whole picture of the country, said Lampton, who has traveled numerous times to 皇冠体育app since the 1970s and is director of 皇冠体育app Studies at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.

"This should be an opportunity to expose him to the complexity and diversity of 皇冠体育app," he said.

The White House, in a statement released on Monday, said Trump will arrive in Beijing on Nov 8"for a series of bilateral, commercial, and cultural events", including meetings with President Xi Jinping.

It did not say if Trump, a former New York businessman, will be travelling outside Beijing to get to know more about 皇冠体育app and its people, or if he would, like his predecessor Barack Obama did in 2009, have a town hall meeting at a campus.

Early last month, the US Department of State said the US first lady, Melania Trump, will travel with Trump.

"I know Chinese like to invite people and show them good things, modern things, all this kind of things," said Lampton.

He said this is all to the good, but they should show him the diversity of 皇冠体育app, "show what it is to govern 皇冠体育app, how big it is－most provinces in 皇冠体育app are bigger than European countries－how heterogeneous it is," he said.

Lampton, who has written several books on 皇冠体育app, said visitors to the country are fully acquainted with the modern 皇冠体育app, like Pudong in coastal Shanghai. But 皇冠体育app is a very diverse country, and it still has a lot of people that are at a modest level of economic development, the former president of the National Committee on United States-皇冠体育app Relations said.

"I'm a teacher, and I believe to know more is a good thing," Lampton said. "The more you know when you make a decision, the better off you are."

If US leaders make policy assuming all of 皇冠体育app is like Pudong then of course they're going to treat the country as a very powerful country with no problems, he said.

US leaders need to understand that, like themselves, Chinese leaders have a lot of things on their minds, Lampton said. The country has its own problems to solve, and "Chinese leaders aren't spending all their time thinking about how to make life more difficult for Americans".

"They're trying to think how to improve life for Chinese people" he said. "So I would say a very important objective of the visit should be to give Trump a balanced understanding of what 皇冠体育app is, not only what 皇冠体育app is today, but what 皇冠体育app wants to become," Lampton said.

From 1972 when the two countries established formal diplomatic relations to 2009, US presidents from Richard Nixon to Obama have visited cities including Beijing, Shanghai, Xi'an, Hangzhou, Guilin (in Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, South 皇冠体育app) and Hong Kong.

Xi had the first face-to-face informal summit with Trump at the Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida in April.

The author is deputy editor-in-chief of 皇冠体育app Daily USA.

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