Mao greeted me, and then I put the cloak on his shoulders and tied it. I said it was a gift from our Maori king of Aotearoa-New Zealand, a gift of goodwill to the leaders of China. I said：

“We are the smallest nation in the world, giving this gift to the largest nation in the world.”?

He smiled and said reassuringly ：

“The smallest is as great as the largest.”