{"id":669978,"date":"2026-05-14T08:08:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T08:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/669978\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T08:08:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T08:08:10","slug":"trump-china-visit-live-updates-xi-jinping-us-president-to-meet-in-beijing-as-iran-war-strait-of-hormuz-blockade-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/669978\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump China visit LIVE updates: Xi Jinping, US President to meet in Beijing as Iran war, Strait of Hormuz blockade continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When Trump and Xi sit down to a lavish state banquet in Beijing tonight, one Chinese cuisine is likely to feature on the menu: Huaiyang food, from the region surrounding Shanghai, known for its mild and subtle flavours, refined knife-work and emphasis on seasonal dishes.<\/p>\n<p>Some iconic Huaiyang dishes include tender, springy \u201clion\u2019s head\u201d pork meatballs, Yangzhou fried rice, \u201csquirrel fish\u201d deep-fried in a sweet-and-sour sauce, and \u201cwensi tofu\u201d \u2013 a block of tofu sliced into thousands of fine strands.<\/p>\n<p>The cuisine features ingredients native to the Yangtze River basin, such as freshwater fish, eel, and bamboo shoots, with minimal seasoning to highlight their freshness.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Trump and Xi pictured at the state dinner in Beijing in November 2017.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/45afdaee09aaca729a7010cc6474eb7055cfa903.jpeg\"  class=\"sc-d34e428-1 ldCIuB\"\/>Trump and Xi pictured at the state dinner in Beijing in November 2017.AP<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s great for banquets because it\u2019s lighter than the food of Shandong in China\u2019s north, not spicy like the foods of the south-west (like Sichuanese), and more approachable and less reliant on exotic ingredients than Cantonese, the big cuisine of the south,\u201d said Christopher St Cavish, a food writer based in Shanghai.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When Trump and Xi sit down to a lavish state banquet in Beijing tonight, one Chinese cuisine is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":669979,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-669978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=669978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669978\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/669979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=669978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=669978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=669978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}