Democracy Now! 2026-05-14 Thursday
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🗓️ 14 May 2026
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Headlines for May 14, 2026; Xi Warns Trump of Potential “Conflict” over Taiwan in Beijing Summit on Iran, Trade, Tech & More; “Here Where We Live Is Our Country”: Molly Crabapple on Resurfacing the Jewish History of Anti-Zionism
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| 0:00.0 | From New York, this is Democracy Now. |
| 0:18.3 | We're going to have a fantastic future together. |
| 0:22.6 | Such respect for China, the job you've done, you're a great leader. |
| 0:27.6 | A stable China-U.S. relationship benefits the entire world. |
| 0:33.6 | When we cooperate, both sides benefit. |
| 0:36.6 | When we confront each other, both sides suffer. |
| 0:41.6 | President Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping are meeting in Beijing for a high-stakes |
| 0:47.4 | summit, focused on the war in Iran, trade, technology, Taiwan, and more. We'll get the latest. |
| 0:55.7 | Then to the artist and writer Molly Crabapple, author of the new best-selling book, |
| 1:02.2 | Here Where We Live is Our Country, the story of the Jewish Bun. |
| 1:07.8 | The Jewish labor boon was a secular socialist revolutionary party that fought for Jews' rights |
| 1:15.5 | to live in freedom and dignity in Europe as opposed to having to flee to an ethno state |
| 1:19.5 | in Palestine. |
| 1:21.3 | As the world faces the genocide in Gaza and rising fascism around the globe, their message |
| 1:27.0 | is more important than ever. |
| 1:28.8 | All that and more coming up. |
| 1:35.1 | Welcome to Democracy Now, Democracy Now.org, the War and Peace Report. I'm Amy Goodman. |
| 1:42.1 | Chinese President Xi Jinping has warned of the potential for conflict between the U.S. and China over the status of Taiwan. |
| 1:50.0 | President Xi's warning came after he hosted President Donald Trump at the Great Hole of the People in Beijing Thursday, |
| 1:58.0 | where the two spoke for about two hours and 15 minutes. |
| 2:02.6 | Trump had arrived in Beijing a day earlier aboard Air Force One flanked by his son, |
| 2:08.6 | Eric Trump, cabinet members, Scott Bessent, Marco Rubio, and Defense Secretary Pete |
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