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Hi, I'm CNBC producer Katie Kramer.

Today, on Squawk Pod, are the U.S. and China in trade talks or not?

It's a he said, he said, between the Trump administration and the CCP,

an interview with President Trump in Time magazine, now at odds with comments from the Chinese embassy.

Who's saving face?

And what's really happening in the U.S.-China trade war?

Axios White House reporter Mark Caputo on the confusion.

I don't trust our government.

I've never really trusted our leaders, but I trust other governments even less.

So who's telling the truth here is anyone's

guess? And Nick Burns, former U.S. ambassador to China under President Biden, tells us what's at stake.

Strategically, what both countries have to figure out, particularly the United States, is do we want to see a decoupling?

Plus, an atlas full of trade talks and the impact on American businesses.

And Apple is planning to move America's entire supply of iPhones to India.

It doesn't necessarily get the phones to be manufactured back in the U.S.

It's been a week.

Tuesday.

That was like a year ago.

It feels like a year ago.

But we are finally at Friday, April 25th.

Squawk Pod begins right now.

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