{"id":69315,"date":"2026-03-18T10:57:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T15:57:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/18\/looking-for-leverage-china-keeps-close-eye-on-us-politics-after-summit-delay\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T10:57:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T15:57:19","slug":"looking-for-leverage-china-keeps-close-eye-on-us-politics-after-summit-delay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/18\/looking-for-leverage-china-keeps-close-eye-on-us-politics-after-summit-delay\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking for leverage: China keeps close eye on US politics after summit delay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing seeks to decipher effect of Iran war on US midterms and best way to apply pressure when Trump meets Xi<\/p>\n<p>The White House said on Wednesday that China had agreed to postpone Donald Trump\u2019s visit to Beijing, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/iran\">war in the Middle East<\/a> rages on, complicating the US president\u2019s position at home and abroad.<\/p>\n<p>China has not yet commented on the delay to the highly anticipated trip, in which Trump and the Chinese president, Xi Jinping, will meet in person for the first time since October. Trump previously said that he hoped to delay the trip, originally scheduled for 31 March to 2 April, for \u201cfive or six weeks\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/18\/looking-for-leverage-china-keeps-close-eye-on-us-politics-after-summit-delay\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing seeks to decipher effect of Iran war on US midterms and best way to apply pressure when Trump meets Xi The White House said on Wednesday that China had agreed to postpone Donald Trump\u2019s visit to Beijing, as war in the Middle East rages on, complicating the US president\u2019s position at home and abroad. &#8230; <a title=\"Looking for leverage: China keeps close eye on US politics after summit delay\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/18\/looking-for-leverage-china-keeps-close-eye-on-us-politics-after-summit-delay\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Looking for leverage: China keeps close eye on US politics after summit delay\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}