{"id":70916,"date":"2026-05-14T12:14:23","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T12:14:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/70916\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T12:14:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T12:14:23","slug":"as-trump-revamps-white-house-rubio-floored-by-beijing-halls-fancy-ceiling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/70916\/","title":{"rendered":"As Trump revamps White House, Rubio floored by Beijing hall\u2019s fancy ceiling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Footage of Rubio checking out the ceiling of one of the grand reception rooms in which President Xi Jinping <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3353515\/china-us-summit-remarkable-it-enough-change-relations?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">hosted<\/a> his US counterpart Donald Trump on Thursday went viral online.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The candid footage catches Rubio in the East Hall of the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, his gaze fixed upwards on the ceiling\u2019s ornate decorations. The sprawling Great Hall near Tiananmen Square is used for ceremonial and legislative events.<\/p>\n<p>Rubio repeatedly pointed towards the ceiling, rotating his fingers to trace its ornate patterns before giving a thumbs-up in approval. Turning to US <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/military\/article\/3353458\/what-does-pentagon-chief-hegseths-presence-china-say-about-trumps-military-agenda?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth<\/a>, Rubio continued to gesture towards specific details \u2013 interpreted by many Chinese viewers as a sign of his respect for the country\u2019s craftsmanship.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Spanning over 1,120 square metres (12,055 sq ft) on the building\u2019s second floor, the design of the East Hall\u2019s ceiling draws inspiration from traditional Chinese architecture, notably the dou gong structure of interlocking wooden brackets and zao jing sunken ceiling panels that are often given intricate decorations.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The hall\u2019s ceiling features three large sunken octagons with detailed wood carvings, each of which surrounds a large crystal chandelier.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">On the wall behind where the US delegation sat hangs a 16-metre-long (52 feet), 3-metre-wide Chinese painting titled Youyan Golden Autumn, which depicts autumn scenery in northern China and is inscribed with chairman Mao Zedong\u2019s calligraphy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Footage of Rubio checking out the ceiling of one of the grand reception rooms in which President Xi&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70917,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[121],"tags":[9548,260,40951,250,12,40952,40950,3552,186,18,7179,329,40742,107,987],"class_list":{"0":"post-70916","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-marco-rubio","8":"tag-aleksandar-vucic","9":"tag-beijing","10":"tag-chairman-mao-zedong","11":"tag-china","12":"tag-donald-trump","13":"tag-east-hall","14":"tag-great-hall-of-the-people","15":"tag-hong-kong","16":"tag-marco-rubio","17":"tag-pete-hegseth","18":"tag-richard-nixon","19":"tag-russia","20":"tag-tiananmen-square","21":"tag-us","22":"tag-white-house"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@people\/116572878491595866","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}