Winning over China: Donald Trump's five-year-old granddaughter becomes 'friendship messenger' after video for her singing in Mandarin takes the country by storm
- Ivanka Trump attended a lunar new year party at the Chinese Embassy in Washington DC
- She went with her daughter Arabella as the guest of China's ambassador to the United States, Cui Tiankai
- Ivanka posted a new video of Arabella performing a song in Mandarin on Thursday to her Instagram page
- The 5-year-old started learning Mandarin when she was just 18 months old
- Some web users praised the Trump family for the idea while others said they wanted a greeting from the President Trump himself
A video clip of President Donald Trump's granddaughter singing in Mandarin to celebrate Lunar New Year has gone viral in China.
The clip posted by Trump's daughter Ivanka, after their visit to the Chinese Embassy in Washington D.C., shows 5-year-old Arabella Kushner wishing a happy new year while playing with a traditional Chinese puppet.
Arabella started learning Mandarin when she was only 18 months old, and the video has been viewed over 18 million times alone on Chinese social media website Weibo since being uploaded to Ivanka's Instagram page on Thursday.
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