President Xi Jinping receives a football jersey, which reads “Xi” on the back, from a student during a visit to Lincoln High School in Tacoma, Washington, on Wednesday. Students also gave Xi a football. Xi toured a classroom and heard the school’s drum line in the auditorium. He first visited Tacoma 22 years ago while striking a sister- city relationship between the port city and Fuzhou, China, where Xi was a regional leader. Lincoln High School was the last public stop on a day that saw Xi meet with business leaders in Seattle and tour Boeing’s airplane production facility and Microsoft’s suburban campus. Xi left for Washington, D.C., on Thursday.

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