The musical performance, acrobatics and show of paper cutting required no translation, for the most part, when US first daughter Ivanka Trump visited the Chinese embassy in Washington, DC, for the first time.

But when she did need translation, Trump merely had to ask her 5-year-old daughter, Arabella Rose Kushner, who has been learning Mandarin and accompanied her to the Chinese Spring Festival celebration at the embassy on Wednesday night.

"She is my translator," a smiling Trump told Chinese Ambassador Cui Tiankai.