{"id":1211,"date":"2026-05-14T15:41:30","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T15:41:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cnnglobalnews.com\/?p=1211"},"modified":"2026-05-14T15:41:30","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T15:41:30","slug":"trump-delights-in-his-deference-to-xi-his-strongman-fantasy-made-flesh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/?p=1211","title":{"rendered":"Trump delights in his deference to Xi, his strongman fantasy made flesh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese leader appears to be in the driving seat as the unusually polite US president ignores questions on Taiwan<\/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\"><strong>Trump in Beijing \u2013 latest updates<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Why does Donald Trump look so at home in China?<\/p>\n<p>The US president <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/may\/14\/trump-xi-jinping-meet-beijing-ahead-of-summit-trade-iran-war-ai-talks\">spent day one of his summit<\/a> in Beijing basking in rigid pageantry, heroically managing not to offend his hosts and offering the verdict: \u201cChina is beautiful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/may\/14\/trump-xi-jinping-strongman-fantasy-china\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese leader appears to be in the driving seat as the unusually polite US president ignores questions on Taiwan Trump in Beijing \u2013 latest updates Why does Donald Trump look &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/?p=1211\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1212,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}