Photos of President Xi’s visit in Seattle

Originally published September 22, 2015 at 10:21 am Updated September 24, 2015 at 10:38 am

Chinese President Xi Jinping departs Paine Field in Everett on Thursday morning on his 747-400. (Mike Siegel / The Seattle Times)

Mushawn Knowles, left and Dionte Simon, members of the Lincoln High School football team, give President Xi Jinping a custom “Xi” jersey during his visit to the Tacoma school. Xi previously visited Lincoln in 1993. (Lindsey Wasson / The Seattle Times)

During a speech at Lincoln High School in Tacoma, President Xi Jinping reveals that he was giving books about China and pingpong tables to the school, and he invited 100 students to be guests of the Chinese government next year. (Lindsey Wasson / The Seattle Times)

Members of the Lincoln band play before President Xi Jinping entered the school auditorium. (Lindsey Wasson / The Seattle Times)

Chinese President Xi Jinping stands with Tacoma Mayor Marilyn Strickland, left, as he meets Lincoln alumnus and former NFL player Lawyer Milloy, who played with the Seahawks in 2009. (Lindsey Wasson / The Seattle Times)

President Xi Jinping holds a football given to him by Lincoln football players. (Lindsey Wasson / The Seattle Times)

Lincoln High School students applaud Tacoma Mayor Marilyn Strickland’s remarks during President Xi Jinping’s visit to the school. (Lindsey Wasson / The Seattle Times)

Students stand and wave flags after President Xi Jinping’s surprise invitation for 100 Lincoln students to visit China. (Lindsey Wasson / The Seattle Times)

Protesters in Redmond prepare for the arrival of President Xi Jinping’s motorcade at Microsoft. (Ken Lambert / The Seattle Times)

Police from departments in Redmond, Bellevue, Federal Way, Auburn, Port of Seattle and others meet on the Microsoft campus in Redmond to prepare for the arrival of President Xi Jinping’s motorcade. (Ken Lambert / The Seattle Times)

President Xi Jinping’s motorcade, which includes security personnel in helmets, drives past the crowd waiting at the Microsoft campus.
(Ken Lambert / The Seattle Times)

Protesters wave flags across the street from Lincoln High School in Tacoma before President Xi Jinping’s arrival. Xi previously visited the school in 1993, when he was a government official in Tacoma’s sister city of Fuzhou, China. (Lindsey Wasson / The Seattle Times)

Students from the Annie Wright School arrive at Lincoln High School in Tacoma before the arrival of President Xi Jinping. (Lindsey Wasson / The Seattle Times)

A protester holding a sign containing an image of President Xi Jinping awaits Xi’s arrival at Lincoln High School in Tacoma. (Lindsey Wasson / The Seattle Times)

Peng Liyuan, wife of President Xi Jinping, shakes hands with Bill Gates, co-chair and trustee of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, as his wife, Melinda Gates, looks on. They were visiting the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. Peng Liyuan is the World Health Organization’s goodwill ambassador for tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS, thus her visit to “The Hutch.” (Ellen M. Banner / The Seattle Times)

Peng Liyuan, right, chats with Melinda Gates during a tour of the The Hutch. At far left is Bill Gates, (Ellen M. Banner / The Seattle Times)

Peng Liyuan listens to speeches at The Hutch. At right is Dr. Gary Gilliland, president and director of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. After the speeches, Peng went on a tour of Dr. Julie McElrath’s lab, where HIV research is being done. (Ellen M. Banner / The Seattle Times)

Chinese President Xi Jinping, right, and Ray Conner, president and CEO of Boeing Commercial Airplanes, tour the Boeing assembly line in Everett, Wash. REUTERS/Jason Redmond/Pool

Chinese President Xi Jinping, left, and Boeing’s Ray Conner chat during the Everett plant tour. REUTERS/Jason Redmond/Pool

The scene inside the hangar as President Xi Jinping speaks at the Everett plant after the factory tour. At left is a Boeing 787-8, and at right a Boeing 737-800, both destined for airlines in China. (John Lok / The Seattle Times)

Boeing Commercial Airplanes CEO and President Ray Conner greets Chinese President Xi Jinping at Boeing’s Everett plant on Wednesday. (John Lok / The Seattle Times)

Chinese President Xi Jinping addresses the crowd at Boeing on Wednesday, September 23, 2015, in Everett, Wash. (John Lok / The Seattle Times)

Boeing president and CEO Dennis Muilenberg, right, presented Chinese President Xi Jinping with a gift of a customized airplane window frame with a photo of him and his wife on Wednesday, September 23, 2015, in Everett, Wash. At far left is Boeing Commercial Airplanes president and CEO, Ray Conner. (John Lok / The Seattle Times)

Chinese President Xi Jinping, far right, addresses the crowd at Boeing on Wednesday, September 23, 2015 in Everett, Wash. At far left are, Boeing Commercial Airplanes president and CEO , Ray Conner, and Boeing president and CEO, Dennis Muilenberg. (John Lok / The Seattle Times)

Chinese President Xi Jinping’s motorcade is northbound Wednesday from Seattle to Everett on the I-5 express lanes. (Steve Ringman / The Seattle Times)

Chinese President Xi Jinping’s motorcade drives past supporters and demonstrators Wednesday on the second day of his Seattle visit. (Erika Schultz / The Seattle Times)

Seattle police and Washington State Patrol officers ride Wednesday in the motorcade for Chinese President Xi Jinping. (Erika Schultz / The Seattle Times)

Flags carried by pro-Chinese President Xi Jinping, the Stars & Stripes and the Chinese flag, and demonstrators with Falun Gong with yellow banners are south of the Westin Seattle hotel towers at the corner of corner of Fifth and Olive hoping for a glimpse of President Xi. (Alan Berner / The Seattle Times)

Crowds holds flags welcoming Chinese president Xi Jinping during the second day. (Erika Schultz / The Seattle Times)

Seattle Police monitor the crowd before Chinese president Xi Jinping’s motorcade travels through downtown Seattle on the second day of his visit. (Erika Schultz / The Seattle Times)

Falun Gong demonstrators, including JiaHao Wu with yellow banners are blocked by people saying they’re supporters of Chinese President Xi Jinping, at the corner of Fifth and Olive. The white banner says “bring Jiang Zemin to Justice,” the former Chinese president. Falun Gong says they’re Chinese flag bearers are flown in and paid. (Alan Berner / The Seattle Times)

Pedestrians walk by flags welcoming Chinese President Xi Jinping Wednesday on the second day of his Seattle visit. (Erika Schultz / The Seattle Times)

A Seattle police officer warns demonstrators Wednesday not to hold banners in front of other signs on the second day of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit. (Erika Schultz / The Seattle Times)

Demonstrators hold signs Wednesday, the second day of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s Seattle visit. (Erika Schultz / The Seattle Times)

Dong Qing, left, Seattle resident, holds flags welcoming Chinese president Xi Jinping during the second day of his visit. (Erika Schultz / The Seattle Times)

Crowds holds flags welcoming Chinese president Xi Jinping during the second day of his visit. (Erika Schultz / The Seattle Times)

Falun Dafa demonstrators turn out for the second day of Chinese president Xi Jinping’s Seattle visit. (Erika Schultz / The Seattle Times)

Chinese President Xi Jinping arrives to applause at his welcome banquet at the Westin Seattle Tuesday night. (Bettina Hansen / The Seattle Times)

Chinese President Xi Jinping speaks during a welcome banquet Tuesday at the Westin Seattle hotel. (Bettina Hansen / The Seattle Times)

Chinese President Xi Jinping Tuesday greets former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, who engineered the thaw in U.S.-China relations under President Nixon in the early 1970s. Xi was at the Westin Seattle. (Bettina Hansen / The Seattle Times)

A woman takes a photo as people find their seats before a welcome banquet for Chinese President Xi Jinping at the Westin Seattle hotel.
(Bettina Hansen / The Seattle Times)

Former Washington Gov. Gary Locke toasts President Xi Jinping’s arrival during a welcome banquet at the Westin Seattle. (Bettina Hansen / The Seattle Times)

From left, Ford Motor Company CEO Mark Fields, Chinese President Xi Jinping and Washington Gov. Jay Inslee toast to President Xi’s arrival during a welcome banquet at the Westin Seattle hotel. (Bettina Hansen / The Seattle Times)

Bill and Melinda Gates listen to speakers during a welcome banquet for Chinese President Xi Jinping at the Westin Seattle hotel. (Bettina Hansen / The Seattle Times)

Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger talks with California Gov. Jerry Brown before a welcome banquet for Chinese President Xi Jinping at the Westin Seattle hotel. (Bettina Hansen / The Seattle Times)

Delegates and security navigate through the Westin Seattle hotel during Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to Seattle.
(Bettina Hansen / The Seattle Times)

Seattle police congregate on bikes at 5th Avenue and Olive Way near the Westin hotel in downtown Seattle as Chinese President Xi Jinping meets with United States political and business leaders during a banquet on Tuesday. (Lindsey Wasson / The Seattle Times)

Seattle police stand in front of a group of protesters stopped at 5th Avenue and Olive Way near the Westin Seattle hotel in downtown Seattle as Chinese President Xi Jinping meets with United States political and business leaders on Tuesday. (Lindsey Wasson / The Seattle Times)

Changbo Zhai, a visiting scholar from mainland China, at University of Washington, holds an American Flag in support of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit at Microsoft on Wednesday in Redmond.
(Ken Lambert / The Seattle Times)

A young girl wears a “Free Tibet” hat as protesters stand on the road at 5th Avenue and Olive Way near the Westin in downtown Seattle as Chinese President Xi Jinping meets with United States political and business leaders on Tuesday. (Lindsey Wasson / The Seattle Times)

A protester shouts “Stop the killing! Stop the genocide!” as protesters block the road at 5th Avenue and Olive Way near the Westin hotel in downtown Seattle as Chinese President Xi Jinping meets with United States political and business leaders on Tuesday. (Lindsey Wasson / The Seattle Times)

Marching east from Westlake Park, demonstrators protest China’s involvement with Taiwan on Tuesday. (Greg Gilbert / The Seattle Times)

Tenzin Choezom, 5, plays under a giant Tibetan flag prior to a march from Westlake Park on Tuesday. (Greg Gilbert / The Seattle Times)

Chinese President Xi Jinping holds a forum with several U.S. and Chinese governors at the Westin Seattle hotel. (Bettina Hansen / The Seattle Times)

Chinese President Xi Jinping holds a forum with several U.S. Governors at the Westin Seattle hotel. (Bettina Hansen / The Seattle Times)

A local delegation of officials begins talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping at the Westin Seattle hotel on Tuesday. (John Lok / The Seattle Times)

Chinese President Xi Jinping begins talks with local officials at the Westin Seattle hotel on Tuesday. (John Lok / The Seattle Times)

Washington State Governor Jay Inslee, left, greets Chinese President Xi Jinping at the start of a local officials meeting at the Westin Seattle hotel on Tuesday. (John Lok / The Seattle Times)

Yang Weixin , a guest at the pre-meeting of U.S. and Chinese governors, takes a selfie before the Governors’ meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping at the Westin Seattle hotel. (Bettina Hansen / The Seattle Times)

The People’s Republic of China flag is displayed with others outside the Westin Seattle hotel on Tuesday. (Greg Gilbert / The Seattle Times)

A plainclothes K9 officer checks cars before allowing them to travel West on Stewart Street on Tuesday. (Greg Gilbert / The Seattle Times)

The Icon Grill across the street from the Westin, where the Chinese president is staying on 5th Ave. in downtown Seattle Tuesday afternoon. (Ellen M. Banner / The Seattle Times)

Chinese President Xi Jinping’s motorcade travels down Stewart Street in downtown Seattle. (Ellen M. Banner / The Seattle Times)

Beneath a sign reading “Welcome President Xi,” a child peers from the window of a day-care center along the motorcade route in downtown Seattle Tuesday morning. (John Lok / The Seattle Times)

A man with a Chinese flag heads toward the route of President Xi Jinping’s motorcade through Seattle. (John Lok / The Seattle Times)

People line Stewart Street in downtown Seattle to see Chinese President Xi Jinping’s motorcade pass en route to the Westin. (John Lok / The Seattle Times)

People grab hom bows, cocktail buns and other pastries offered along the motorcade route Tuesday morning. (John Lok / The Seattle Times)

People play instruments to welcome Xi Jinping as the Chinese president arrives in Seattle. (Ellen M. Banner / The Seattle Times)

Drivers wait outside their cars while Eighth Avenue is closed for the Chinese president’s motorcade. (Ellen M. Banner / The Seattle Times)

People hoping for a glimpse of the Chinese president pose with a Seattle police officer after President Xi’s motorcade passed on Tuesday. (Mike Siegel / The Seattle Times)

Security was tight around Seattle on Tuesday. Here, a Seattle police officer is stationed on the Roanoke I-5 overpass as President Xi Jinping’s motorcade travels to downtown. (Greg Gilbert / The Seattle Times)

A person unfurls a United States flag as he waits for Chinese President Xi Jinping’s motorcade. (Steve Ringman / The Seattle Times)

Seattle police wait outside the Federal Building on Seventh Avenue. (Steve Ringman / The Seattle Times)

Traffic is diverted off Fifth Avenue on Tuesday. (Steve Ringman / The Seattle Times)

Police keep a close watch as both supporters and protesters gather at Sixth and Stewart, awaiting the arrival of the Chinese president. (Steve Ringman / The Seattle Times)

Construction workers watch and take photos as downtown Seattle awaits the arrival of the Chinese president. Streets were closed to traffic Tuesday morning, and large crowds gathered. (Steve Ringman / The Seattle Times)

Chinese President Xi Jinping arrives at Paine Field in Everett with his wife, Peng Liyuan. (Mike Siegel / The Seattle Times)

Chinese President Xi Jinping and his wife, Peng Liyuan, are welcomed as they exit their plane Tuesday. (Mike Siegel / The Seattle Times)

Chinese President Xi Jinping arrives with his wife, Peng Liyuan. (Mike Siegel / The Seattle Times)

Chinese President Xi Jinping’s Boeing 747-400 is pulled toward the red carpet welcome at Paine Field on Tuesday. (Mike Siegel / The Seattle Times)

Chinese President Xi Jinping’s Boeing 747-400 taxis toward a red carpet welcome at Paine Field in Everett Tuesday morning. (Mike Siegel / The Seattle Times)

Members of the welcoming delegation take photos as Chinese President Xi Jinping’s plane arrives at Paine Field in Everett. (Mike Siegel / The Seattle Times)

President Xi Jinping’s plane arrives at Paine Field in Everett on Tuesday. (Mike Siegel / The Seattle Times)

Photos from President Xi's time in Seattle.

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Colin Diltz

Seattle Times staff

Colin Diltz: 206-464-2047 or cdiltz@seattletimes.com; on Twitter: @colindiltz.