{"id":157605,"date":"2026-09-18T11:00:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T11:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=157605"},"modified":"2026-09-18T11:00:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T11:00:11","slug":"us-hands-over-64-smuggled-artefacts-to-china-in-diplomatic-push-before-leaders-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=157605","title":{"rendered":"US hands over 64 smuggled artefacts to China in diplomatic push before leaders\u2019 meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostThe United States has returned cultural relics to China ahead of Chinese President Xi Jinping\u2019s coming visit to Washington, a goodwill gesture paving the way for a positive summit and stabilising ties.<br \/>\nAt the handover ceremony at the Chinese embassy in Washington on Wednesday, China received 58 pieces of cultural relics and palaeontological fossils from the Cultural Property, Art and Antiquities programme of US Homeland Security Investigations.<br \/>\nA further six items were returned a day later by&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3368033\/us-hands-over-64-smuggled-artefacts-china-diplomatic-push-leaders-meeting?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostThe United States has returned cultural relics to China ahead of Chinese President Xi Jinping\u2019s coming visit to Washington, a goodwill gesture paving the&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157605"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=157605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=157605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=157605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=157605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}