{"id":82857,"date":"2026-05-12T07:55:27","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T11:55:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=82857"},"modified":"2026-05-12T07:55:27","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T11:55:27","slug":"leaders-of-u-s-china-meet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/leaders-of-u-s-china-meet\/","title":{"rendered":"Leaders Of U.S., China Meet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From AP:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>President\u00a0<span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/donald-trump\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">Donald Trump<\/a><\/span>\u00a0is set to leave Tuesday for\u00a0<span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/trump-visit-china-xi-iran-trade-diplomacy-75a27d595cfa5882b1e5bef917385309\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">Beijing to meet<\/a><\/span>\u00a0with President\u00a0<span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/xi-jinping\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">Xi Jinping<\/a><\/span>\u00a0after weeks of trying, and failing, to persuade the Chinese government to use its considerable leverage to prod Iran to agree to U.S. terms to end the two-month war \u2014 or at the very least, reopen the\u00a0<span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/strait-of-hormuz\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">Strait of Hormuz.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Trump has veered between venting that China, the world\u2019s biggest buyer of Iranian oil, hasn\u2019t done more to get the Islamic Republic in line, and acknowledging that\u00a0<span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/iran-war-china-diplomacy-ceasefire-trump-7ffbf7bf87519f9ec4050ee27127fd1d\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">Xi\u2019s government helped<\/a><\/span>\u00a0de-escalate the conflict last month by nudging Tehran back to ceasefire talks when negotiations wobbled.<\/p>\n<div class=\"gsp_post_data\" \r\n\t            data-post_type=\"post\" \r\n\t            data-cat=\"news\" \r\n\t            data-modified=\"120\"\r\n\t            data-created=\"1778572527\"\r\n\t            data-title=\"Leaders Of U.S., China Meet\" \r\n\t            data-home=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From AP: President\u00a0Donald Trump\u00a0is set to leave Tuesday for\u00a0Beijing to meet\u00a0with President\u00a0Xi Jinping\u00a0after weeks of trying, and failing, to persuade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-82857","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82857"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82858,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82857\/revisions\/82858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}