{"id":77422,"date":"2026-05-20T22:44:56","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T13:44:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/may\/20\/how-xi-jinping-china-welcomed-donald-trump-vladimir-putin"},"modified":"2026-05-20T22:44:56","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T13:44:56","slug":"same-but-different-how-xi-and-china-welcomed-trump-and-putin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=77422","title":{"rendered":"Same but different: how Xi and China welcomed Trump and Putin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Choreography of back-to-back visits appeared deliberately mirrored but China made sure the differences were noticed<\/p>\n<p>Days after Donald Trump was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/may\/13\/trump-china-summit-xi-jinping-talks\">greeted in Beijing<\/a> with a military band, an honour guard and dozens of youths waving American and Chinese flags, Vladimir Putin arrived in China to an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/may\/19\/vladimir-putin-beijing-china-state-visit-xi-jinping-russia\">almost identical spectacle<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The choreography of the two welcomes appeared deliberately mirrored, designed to showcase Beijing\u2019s ability to host leaders from Washington and Moscow with equal grandeur.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/may\/20\/how-xi-jinping-china-welcomed-donald-trump-vladimir-putin\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Choreography of back-to-back visits appeared deliberately mirrored but China made sure the differences were noticedDays after Donald Trump was greeted in Beijing with a military band, an honour guard and dozens of youths waving American and Chinese fla&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5309,"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":[41,50,415,221,419,47,818,42,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-donald-trump","category-europe","category-russia","category-us-news","category-vladimir-putin","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\/77422","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\/5309"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77422"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77423,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77422\/revisions\/77423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}