5.13.26 Managing a rivalry with Beijing, eradicating leprosy, and courageously engaging the culture
The World and Everything In It
WORLD Radio
4.8 • 7K Ratings
🗓️ 13 May 2026
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Washington Wednesday on managing a rivalry with Beijing, World Tour on eradicating leprosy, and Chuck Colson’s vision for engaging culture. Plus, Daniel Suhr on global entitlement, a Lego fraud scheme, and the Wednesday morning news
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning. Trade, Taiwan, and the war in Iran. Who has the leverage as President Trump talks with China? |
| 0:12.3 | I spoke with President Xi. We look forward. We both look forward to the meeting. It's going to be great. |
| 0:17.1 | Hunter Baker, standing by for Washington Wednesday. Also today, World Tour, |
| 0:22.1 | and later a Christian worldview program sending hundreds into schools, churches, medicine, and media. |
| 0:28.7 | What we need is a cadre of people who know how to defend Christianity in every single area of life. |
| 0:35.1 | And world commentator Daniel Sir on U.S. pushback to mass migration. |
| 0:47.0 | It's Wednesday, May 13th. |
| 0:49.1 | This is The World and Everything in it from listener-supported World Radio. |
| 0:52.7 | I'm Lindsay Mast. |
| 0:53.8 | And I'm Nick Eger. Good morning. |
| 0:57.7 | Up next, Kent Covington has today's news. President Trump is in Beijing today to sit down with |
| 1:04.7 | Chinese leader Xi Jinping. Trade negotiations top the agenda, but of course the Iran war also looms over the talks. |
| 1:12.4 | Republican Senator Dave McCormick says China, as Iran's biggest oil customer, has the leverage to help put an end to the war. |
| 1:19.8 | They should want to find a resolution and add more pressure. They also are a supporter of Iran with a lot of military technology. And I would hope the president's going to |
| 1:27.8 | make them stop assisting Iran with its buildup of ballistic missiles and so forth. |
| 1:34.5 | Trump says he will have a long talk with Xi Jinping about Iran, but trade is his main focus. |
| 1:40.6 | Top business executives, including Elon Musk and Apple's Tim Cook, are along for the trip. |
| 1:46.8 | Today's gathering in China comes after a Southern California mayor this week agreed to plead |
| 1:51.5 | guilty to acting as an illegal agent for the Chinese government. Federal officials said |
| 1:56.4 | Eileen Wang, the mayor of Arcadia, was charged with one count of acting in the United States |
| 2:01.5 | as an illegal agent of a foreign government. |
| 2:04.3 | The 58-year-old's plea agreement states that she worked on behalf of Chinese officials to advance |
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