{"id":109144,"date":"2026-05-12T12:36:31","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T12:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/12\/the-superpower-trap-who-has-more-cards-trump-or-xi\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T12:36:31","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T12:36:31","slug":"the-superpower-trap-who-has-more-cards-trump-or-xi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/12\/the-superpower-trap-who-has-more-cards-trump-or-xi\/","title":{"rendered":"The superpower trap: Who has more cards &#8211; Trump or Xi?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump&#8217;s China visit occurs amid a US-Iran stalemate, with analysts suggesting Xi Jinping holds more leverage. Many in Beijing view Trump as a symptom of liberal democracy&#8217;s instability and American decline, validating Xi&#8217;s &#8220;rise of the East&#8221; worldview. This perception of US weakness could lead China to miscalculate and test Washington.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump&#8217;s China visit occurs amid a US-Iran stalemate, with analysts suggesting Xi Jinping holds more leverage. Many in Beijing view Trump as a symptom of liberal democracy&#8217;s instability and American decline, validating Xi&#8217;s &#8220;rise of the East&#8221; worldview. This perception of US weakness could lead China to miscalculate and test Washington.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":109145,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109144"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}