WASHINGTON, Feb 3 — Donald Trump’s ties with China might be a bit tetchy but it hasn’t stopped his family from celebrating Chinese New Year.

The US president’s daughter Ivanka shared a video on Instagram of her five-year-old daughter Arabella singing a "Happy New Year” song in Mandarin to the tune of Oh My Darling Clementine while holding a red lion puppet.

"Arabella singing a song she learned for #ChineseNewYear. Wishing everyone an amazing year to come during these days of celebration!” Ivanka wrote.

The clip, which has been viewed almost 840,000 times on Ivanka’s official Instagram page at time of writing, was reposted by China state-run Global Times and subsequently chalked up 18 million hits in less than 24 hours.

In November 2012, Ivanka told the South China Morning Post that her daughter was studying Mandarin with a Chinese nanny.

Last year, she shared a similar video of Arabella singing a new year song to usher in the year of the monkey.

Arabella is the eldest child of Ivanka Trump and her husband, Jared Kushner, a real estate investor and developer, publisher, and senior advisor to his father-in-law. They have two other children, Joseph and Theodore, aged three years and 10 months, respectively.