
Melania Trump showed off more of her China adventures on Twitter on Saturday - this time her meeting with Beijing panda Gu Gu.

The First Lady posted photos of herself meeting the fuzzball that were taken during her travels on Friday morning - and even stroking the creature's paw as it reached out to her in Beijing Zoo.

Sadly the situation was less Beauty and the Beast and more Silence of the Lambs, as the otherwise adorable bundle of fluff has already mauled three people.

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Beauty and the beast? Melania Trump met Gu Gu the giant panda at Beijing Zoo on Friday, as seen in these photos posted on her Twitter account on Saturday

Bear behind bars: The panda was unable to reach Melania thanks to these bars. Gu Gu has already mauled three people who climbed into his enclosure in 2006, 2007 and 2009

Panda diplomacy: Melania was delighted to meet the beast. Gu Gu has a habit of biting his victims' legs, and once had to have his jaws prized off with tools

Melania posted the photos on Saturday afternoon with the message 'Wonderful to meet Gu Gu!'

And she does indeed look delighted as she encounters the cute creature, feeding it a long stick of bamboo as it sits at an opening hatch in its cage.

There's certainly no indication that the 240lb giant panda was hostile to the First Lady - perhaps placated by her coordinated clothing, comprising of a black sweater and light beige skirt.

But Gu Gu, who was born in the zoo in 1999, has a troubled past and a history of violence.

In September 2006 - just days before his seventh birthday, the giant panda was confronted by a drunk man named Zhang Xinyan.

Zhang, who had traveled seven hours from Henan, around 300 miles southwest of Beijing, to see the zoo, then drunk several beers while walking around and decided he wanted to meet Gu Gu himself.

Unfortunately, Gu Gu was less enthusiastic.

'...and a nice chianti': The bars gave a Silence of the Lambs tone to the meeting, although Gu Gu seemed to enjoy it - possibly because of Melania's bamboo and panda-coordinated outfit

Great times: Also on Saturday, Melania posted up more pictures from her Friday travels, which included this reconstructed section of the Great Wall of China at Mutianyu outside Beijing

Zhang jumped over the railing into Gu Gu's enclosure and crept up on the bear before surprising him with a 'hug'.

Gu Gu, startled, responded by biting Zhang on both legs. The drunk man then bit the panda back in an attempt to get it off him.

Unfortunately, Zhang later explained, the fur on the animal's back was too thick for his teeth to make purchase on Gu Gu's neck, and so zookeepers had to spray the animal with water to get it off.

Gu Gu was not hurt in the attack, although the zookeepers noted that he lost his appetite for a day and a half.

The next attack occurred the following October when Li Xitao, a 15-year-old from Hebei, the province that surrounds Beijing, climbed into the enclosure out of 'curiosity'.

Gu Gu, startled again, attacked the boy and also bit both of his legs - this time down to the bone, tearing out flesh in the process.

He was hospitalized, and a zoo spokesperson said that it would take unspecified measures to protect against further attacks.

Those measures would not include increasing the height of the barrier, he said, as that would stop people from being able to see inside.

The wall - which is usually thronging with tourists, even in the autumn - was seemingly shut down so that the First Lady could experience it unbothered by the proles

The third - and so far final - attack occurred in 2009, when father Zhang Jiao climbed inside to retrieve his son's toy.

He said that he had looked around to make sure there were no pandas nearby before getting in but had apparently overlooked Gu Gu, who again dived for his victim's legs.

This time the bear clamped on so hard that zoo workers had to use tools to pry open the panda's mouth and free Zhang, who had a ligament operation afterwards.

Melania's zoo visit also saw her meeting a group of Chinese schoolkids outside the enclosure of another panda, Meng'er.

It's not known whether Meng'er has yet claimed any victims.