No swift end to the Iran war, uncertainty over Taiwan and only vague outlines of commercial deals \u2026 but the US president did get to bask in the company of Xi Jinping<\/p>\n
It was historic, to be sure, but not as anyone had predicted<\/a>. First there was Donald Trump<\/a>, a self-declared teetotaler, apparently drinking champagne after Xi Jinping assured him that China\u2019s \u201cgreat rejuvenation\u201d could go hand in hand with \u201cMake America great again\u201d. Then there was a Chinese military band playing a rendition of the US president\u2019s signature campaign song, YMCA.<\/p>\n Beneath giant chandeliers, blue and gold balconies and a big orange backdrop with pagoda-style roofs, Thursday\u2019s state banquet in Beijing featured characters whose presence would have been unthinkable here a decade ago: Elon Musk<\/a>, the eccentric tech billionaire, Pete Hegseth<\/a>, the Fox News host turned \u201csecretary of war\u201d, and of course Trump himself, a former reality TV star now leading the world\u2019s biggest superpower.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" No swift end to the Iran war, uncertainty over Taiwan and only vague outlines of commercial deals \u2026 but the US president did get to bask in the company of Xi Jinping It was historic, to be sure, but not as anyone had predicted. First there was Donald Trump, a self-declared teetotaler, apparently drinking champagne … 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-73603","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\/73603","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=73603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73603\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}