{"id":157961,"date":"2026-09-25T05:48:05","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T05:48:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=157961"},"modified":"2026-09-25T05:48:05","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T05:48:05","slug":"from-wine-to-ping-pong-trump-and-xis-state-dinner-is-heavy-on-historic-symbolism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=157961","title":{"rendered":"From wine to ping-pong, Trump and Xi\u2019s state dinner is heavy on historic symbolism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostWhen US President Donald Trump hosted Chinese President Xi Jinping in the East Room, every detail of the state dinner was steeped in symbolism, with sparkling wine served as a nod to a pivotal moment in Sino-US relations and references to \u201cping-pong diplomacy\u201d.<br \/>\nThe meal opened with a toast of Schramsberg Blanc de Noirs, a vineyard selected to honour the historic 1972 \u201cToast to Peace\u201d shared by then US president Richard Nixon and Chinese premier Zhou Enlai, according to the first lady\u2019s&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3368762\/wine-ping-pong-trump-and-xis-state-dinner-heavy-historic-symbolism?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 PostWhen US President Donald Trump hosted Chinese President Xi Jinping in the East Room, every detail of the state dinner was steeped in symbolism,&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\/157961"}],"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=157961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157961\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=157961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=157961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=157961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}