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UAE PM Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Tweets in Chinese to Congratulate Xi Jinping on Mars Mission

by Eric Olander

It’s rare for the head of a foreign state to tweet in Chinese, but today the UAE’s Sheikh Mohammed congratulated China, and President Xi Jinping specifically, on the Tianwen-1 spacecraft joining the Emirates’ own Hope Probe in its orbit around Mars.

The Tianwen-1 is scheduled to land tomorrow on the Red Planet.

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