{"id":86828,"date":"2026-09-24T17:17:18","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T21:17:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=86828"},"modified":"2026-09-24T17:17:18","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T21:17:18","slug":"tech-heavy-state-dinner-for-xi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/tech-heavy-state-dinner-for-xi\/","title":{"rendered":"Tech-Heavy State Dinner For XI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From AP:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/dims.apnews.com\/dims4\/default\/599ed61\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/5593x3729+0+0\/resize\/599x399!\/quality\/90\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.apnews.com%2F29%2F0b%2F1cb24ab9cecb6a75ee20e3c8fef5%2F9c0902ee358a447489c3acb49c6fc9ca\" alt=\"President Donald Trump, center right, and first lady Melania Trump, right, greet China's President Xi Jinping, center left, and his wife Peng Liyuan on the South Portico of the White House, Thursday, Sept. 24, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo\/Alex Brandon)\" width=\"341\" height=\"227\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A tech-heavy guest list, the fashion choices of those on it, who sits where, their body language throughout the night and what\u2019s <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\">on the menu<\/span>: these are the softer \u2014 often and glitzier \u2014 details of diplomacy.\u00a0They will be closely scrutinized at Thursday\u2019s state dinner, offering potential clues about where things actually stand between President <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\">Donald Trump<\/span> and China\u2019s leader <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\">Xi Jinping<\/span> on the meatier policy matters discussed behind closed doors.<\/p>\n<p>Thursday\u2019s dinner will include an abundance of technology industry titans, including <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\">Amazon<\/span> founder <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\">Jeff Bezos<\/span>, Tesla and SpaceX\u2019s <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\">Elon Musk<\/span>, <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\">Sundar Pichai<\/span> of Google, OpenAI President <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\">Greg Brockman<\/span> and <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\">Michael Dell<\/span>, the CEO of Dell Technologies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From AP: A tech-heavy guest list, the fashion choices of those on it, who sits where, their body language throughout.<\/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-86828","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\/86828","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=86828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86828\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}