DON'T expect Joan Collins to show up, but the California estate where Joe Biden and Xi Jinping met yesterday is perhaps best known as the setting of the 1980s TV soap opera 'Dynasty'.
Built in 1917, the Filoli Estate at Woodside near San Francisco played host to a landmark summit that aims to reduce the risk of conflict between the world's largest economies.
Every detail of the China-US talks at the brick mansion with its white porticos and lush gardens in the northern California foothills has been carefully choreographed for maximum diplomatic effect.
Biden and Xi will be hoping that despite its television pedigree, the Filoli Estate will prove to be a calm setting for the two leaders - with no cliffhangers and certainly no back stabbing.
The front steps where Biden shook hands with Xi can be seen in the swooping overhead aerial shot of the Carrington family's home in the opening titles of the much-watched 'Dynasty'.
The gilt-edged, frescoed ballroom where the Chinese and American delegations met was where Blake Carrington married his innocent secretary Krystle in the series premiere.
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