GYEONGJU, South Korea (Reuters) -South Korea’s new president presented Chinese leader Xi Jinping with “the finest” wooden board for ancient strategy game Go during a state visit on Saturday, days after he gave U.S. President Donald Trump a gold crown at a summit meeting.

Gifts for visiting leaders are a key part of international diplomacy, but fraught with difficulties, particularly when such fresh comparisons can be made between offerings to the world’s two most powerful people – who are also fierce rivals.

Xi sat down for his first summit with recently-elected Lee Jae Myung on the last day of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum in the historic South Korean city of Gyeongju.

Lee has vowed to improve ties with China, South Korea’s biggest trading partner, and the talks came afte

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