{"id":50946,"date":"2022-12-07T12:23:19","date_gmt":"2022-12-07T03:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/07\/saudi-arabia-readies-full-state-pageantry-for-xi-jinping-visit"},"modified":"2022-12-07T12:23:19","modified_gmt":"2022-12-07T03:23:19","slug":"saudi-arabia-readies-full-state-pageantry-for-xi-jinping-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=50946","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Arabia readies full state pageantry for Xi Jinping visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese president\u2019s three-day trip to Riyadh will lead to a \u2018strategic agreement\u2019 between the authoritarian powers<\/p>\n<p>Xi Jinping will arrive in Riyadh on Wednesday on a long awaited visit to a regional ally that has readied full state pageantry and a round of agreements likely to cement ties between China and Saudi Arabia \u2013 and deepen alarm in Washington.<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s president will meet more than 30 heads of state and business leaders during his three-day visit to the Saudi capital, which is set to lead to a \u201cstrategic agreement\u201d between the authoritarian powers. The trip is the culmination of decades of cooperation once based on oil sales, which has grown into bilateral trade of close to $90bn a year.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/07\/saudi-arabia-readies-full-state-pageantry-for-xi-jinping-visit\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese president\u2019s three-day trip to Riyadh will lead to a \u2018strategic agreement\u2019 between the authoritarian powersXi Jinping will arrive in Riyadh on Wednesday on a long awaited visit to a regional ally that has readied full state pageantry and a round&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3219,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,221,212,1634,419,398,42,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-europe","category-middle-east-and-north-africa","category-mohammed-bin-salman","category-russia","category-saudi-arabia","category-world-news","category-xi-jinping"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3219"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50946"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50947,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50946\/revisions\/50947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}