{"id":68285,"date":"2024-12-14T00:42:15","date_gmt":"2024-12-13T15:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/dec\/13\/trump-inauguration-china-xi-jinping"},"modified":"2024-12-14T00:42:15","modified_gmt":"2024-12-13T15:42:15","slug":"trump-invites-chinas-leader-xi-jinping-to-his-presidential-inauguration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=68285","title":{"rendered":"Trump invites China\u2019s leader Xi Jinping to his presidential inauguration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Xi is expected to rebuff the offer, as attending the event might put the Chinese president in a subservient position<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump<\/a> has invited China\u2019s hardline president, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/xi-jinping\">Xi Jinping<\/a>, to his inauguration next month in an audacious diplomatic gambit that Beijing has reportedly indicated would be rebuffed.<\/p>\n<p>The president-elect\u2019s overture \u2013 which his staff said might also be extended to other leaders \u2013 broke with historic precedent, which holds that no foreign heads of state are expected to attend US presidential inauguration ceremonies.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/dec\/13\/trump-inauguration-china-xi-jinping\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Xi is expected to rebuff the offer, as attending the event might put the Chinese president in a subservient positionDonald Trump has invited China\u2019s hardline president, Xi Jinping, to his inauguration next month in an audacious diplomatic gambit that B&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4519,"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":[41,50,415,45,47,631,42,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-donald-trump","category-us-foreign-policy","category-us-news","category-us-politics","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\/68285","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\/4519"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68285"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68286,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68285\/revisions\/68286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}