Definition: In this task, you will be presented with a passage and have to answer a question based on your understanding of the events inferred from the passage. Try to find the best answer that is most likely to fill in "_". Note that the URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
Input: (CNN) The leader of the world's most populous nation sits in the halls of power in Beijing, but a part of him remains in the American heartland. Xi Jinping's visit to the United States in February 2012 included expected stops in Washington and trade meetings in California. Even an NBA game. But the part Xi, 59, looked most forward to was an evening in Muscatine, Iowa. He wanted to visit "old friends" he'd met on a trip to Iowa almost 30 years ago. Rewind to a time when Mikhail Gorbachev was ascending to the leadership of the Soviet Communist Party, Terry Anderson was taken hostage in Lebanon and Tiananmen Square was just another place in Beijing. Xi arrived in Muscatine for two weeks in April 1985 with a Chinese delegation looking into farming technology.Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad tapped as China ambassadorXi Jinping visited Iowa in 1985 and returned in 2012 to Muscatine to visit "old friends" 
 Question:Tubandt gestured heavily and drew drawings in the sand to explain things to his _ visitor.

Chinese