Biden Touts Senate Control After Meeting With China's Xi

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🗓️ 14 November 2022

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Tensions appear lower between the U.S. and China following a meeting between the leaders of the two nations. Both described the talks as frank and productive. And Democrats held the Senate over the weekend and Republicans appear on track to have a slight majority in the House.

This episode: political reporter Deepa Shivaram, White House correspondent Franco Ordoñez, China correspondent John Ruwitch, congressional correspondent Claudia Grisales, and senior political editor and correspondent Domenico Montanaro.

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0:00.0	Hey, NPR Politics Podcast. This is Bill in Shanghai, China, where I'm beginning my last
0:06.3	day of quarantine before finally returning home after almost two years in the US. This
0:13.1	podcast was recorded at...
0:15.3	11.08 a.m. Eastern Standard Time on November 14, 2022.
0:20.8	Things may have changed by the time you hear it, but I will at last be back home with my
0:25.0	two cats.
0:26.0	Okay, here's the show. Good job Bill. Congratulations. Welcome to Shanghai Bill.
0:35.0	Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast. I'm Deepa Shiverum. I cover politics.
0:40.8	And I'm Franco Adonia as I cover the White House.
0:43.3	And NPR's John Ruich is on the line from Shanghai. Hi John.
0:46.1	Hey there, how's it going?
0:48.2	We got a lot to get into guys in Franco. You just wrapped up a long day with President
0:52.9	Biden in Bali, where he just finished a press conference after meeting with Chinese
0:57.6	leader Xi Jinping.
0:59.8	I want to be clear and be clear with all leaders, but particularly with Xi Jinping, that I
1:07.6	mean what I say and I say what I mean. So there's no misunderstanding.
1:12.9	And these two leaders met for a little more than three hours. Franco, what was this meeting
1:18.4	about?
1:19.4	You know, the meeting was an effort to put some guardrails on a relationship that has long
1:24.2	been difficult, but particularly sourd over the last year.
1:28.5	Biden says that he had an open and candid conversation with Xi.
1:34.1	And I was in the room for the beginning of it, which was open to the press.
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