{"id":61,"date":"2017-01-14T15:08:09","date_gmt":"2017-01-14T20:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonweak.com\/?p=61"},"modified":"2017-01-19T19:52:13","modified_gmt":"2017-01-20T00:52:13","slug":"trump-makes-china-pay-for-great-wall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/washingtonweak.com\/?p=61","title":{"rendered":"Trump to make China pay for Great Wall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Getting tough on trade with China, President Donald Trump announced today that the Chinese government will pay for maintenance of the Great Wall of China.<\/p>\n<p>Trump made the declaration while speaking to a group of Chinese-American business leaders during a visit to San Francisco&#8217;s China Town. &#8220;We are fed up with American jobs going to China and I will demand that the Chinese use their Great Wall to keep U.S. citizens from entering the country to work,&#8221; said Trump to enthusiastic chants of &#8220;Buird that warr! Buird that warr!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If there&#8217;s one thing I know, it&#8217;s construction,&#8221; said Trump. &#8220;That wall is crumbling in some places. You can see boulders literally lying on the ground. It&#8217;s like no one&#8217;s worked on that wall for hundreds of years,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Issuing a response to the American leader&#8217;s statements, Chinese foreign minister, Wang Yi, stated, &#8220;We respect president Trump&#8217;s desire for fair trade practices, but we have no idea what he is talking about.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=washingtonweak\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Getting tough on trade with China, President Donald Trump announced today that the Chinese government will pay [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":81,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[34],"tags":[12,13,10,11],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/washingtonweak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/washingtonweak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/washingtonweak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/washingtonweak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/washingtonweak.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/washingtonweak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":173,"href":"https:\/\/washingtonweak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions\/173"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/washingtonweak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/81"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/washingtonweak.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/washingtonweak.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/washingtonweak.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}