India used the BRICS summit to showcase its culinary heritage, serving a vegetarian menu featuring dishes from across the country and highlighting millets and Shree Anna. In this video, Firstpost examines how food and culture became part of the diplomatic messaging, and compares it with Donald Trump’s elaborate welcome for Chinese President Xi Jinping in Washington. The video looks at the Chinese influences in the White House dinner, red floral arrangements, Xi’s cultural visits, Melania Trump’s Smithsonian tour with Peng Liyuan and Trump’s symbolic gifts. It also examines what happened on the substantive front, with tariffs, technology restrictions and Taiwan still unresolved despite the extension of the US-China trade truce. Hem Kaur Saroya tells you more.
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