{"id":157890,"date":"2026-09-24T04:23:19","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T04:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=157890"},"modified":"2026-09-24T04:23:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T04:23:19","slug":"video-of-us-military-adjusting-red-carpet-for-chinas-xi-sparks-online-backlash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=157890","title":{"rendered":"Video of US military adjusting red carpet for China\u2019s Xi sparks online backlash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostA video clip showing uniformed US military personnel on their hands and knees making last-minute adjustments to a red carpet has gone viral online, as President Donald Trump rolled out a lavish welcome for his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping at Joint Base Andrews.<br \/>\nThe 12-second clip, which circulated widely on US social media, captured several service members hurriedly smoothing and cleaning the 30-metre (98 feet) carpet moments before Xi emerged from his aircraft.<\/p>\n<p>Chinese officials \u2013 including&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3368596\/video-us-military-adjusting-red-carpet-chinas-xi-sparks-online-backlash?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 PostA video clip showing uniformed US military personnel on their hands and knees making last-minute adjustments to a red carpet has gone viral online,&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\/157890"}],"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=157890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157890\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=157890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=157890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=157890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}