{"id":22506,"date":"2018-11-20T09:22:27","date_gmt":"2018-11-20T09:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=22506"},"modified":"2018-11-20T09:22:27","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T09:22:27","slug":"trump-xi-showdown-looms-ahead-of-g20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=22506","title":{"rendered":"Trump-Xi showdown looms ahead of G20"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">Washington (CNN Politics)<\/cite>The United States and China were preparing to hold high-level trade negotiations in Washington until an escalating war of words between President Donald Trump and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping this weekend prompted Chinese negotiators to cancel their plans.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Now, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/11\/17\/politics\/us-china-trade-talks\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Trump and Xi are heading for a showdown over trade at the upcoming G20 summit in Argentina<\/a>, a month before US tariffs on imports are set to balloon to 25% on January 1.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The collapse of preliminary meetings ahead of the G20 leaves the two leaders without the extensive staff-negotiated draft agreements typical of most international talks, and in part reflects Xi&#8217;s conviction that after months of tit-for-tat tariff announcements, a deal can only be struck with Trump himself.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington (CNN Politics)The United States and China were preparing to hold high-level trade negotiations in Washington until an escalating war of words between President Donald Trump and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping this weekend prompted Chinese negotiators to cancel their plans.Now, Trump and Xi are heading for a showdown over trade at the upcoming G20&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":22507,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22506\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}