{"id":77311,"date":"2026-05-13T21:30:01","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T12:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/may\/13\/trump-visit-beijing-china-scepticism-security"},"modified":"2026-05-14T14:46:38","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T05:46:38","slug":"scepticism-and-tight-security-as-beijing-braces-for-trump-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=77311","title":{"rendered":"Scepticism and tight security as Trump is welcomed by Xi to Beijing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US\u2019s apparent decline has fuelled growing Chinese nationalism while US president has lost his novelty value<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2026\/may\/14\/donald-trump-china-xi-jinping-live-updates-talks-meeting-summit-visit-beijing-latest-news\">Trump in Beijing \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/may\/13\/donald-trump-china-sumit-5-key-issues-xi-jinping\">Five key issues for Xi-Trump summit<\/a>. <\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Yaoji Chaogan, a no-frills canteen next to Beijing\u2019s historic Drum and Bell towers, once proudly displayed photographs of Joe Biden, who visited the restaurant when he was US vice-president in 2011. Biden\u2019s visit went viral in China, with media praising his \u201cnoodle diplomacy\u201d (one of the dishes that Biden ordered was <em>zhajiang mian, <\/em>a traditional style of Beijing noodles with bean paste).<\/p>\n<p>But evidence of Biden\u2019s visit was removed when the restaurant was redecorated a few years ago. A visit from a US leader is no longer something to boast about.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/may\/13\/trump-visit-beijing-china-scepticism-security\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US\u2019s apparent decline has fuelled growing Chinese nationalism while US president has lost his novelty valueTrump in Beijing \u2013 latest updatesFive key issues for Xi-Trump summit. Yaoji Chaogan, a no-frills canteen next to Beijing\u2019s historic Drum and Bell&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4154,"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":[41,50,415,47,42,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-donald-trump","category-us-news","category-world-news","category-xi-jinping"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77311","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\/4154"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77311"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77354,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77311\/revisions\/77354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}