Brian, welcome back. How's your trip?

It was wild. It was a crazy few days. We landed on a Friday, and it just carried in for 72 hours of pure nonstop work. We did not stop working. It was nuts.

Our colleague Brian Schwartz covers economic policy. of pure, nonstop work. We did not stop working. It was nuts.

Our colleague Brian Schwartz covers economic policy, and he spent the weekend in Geneva, Switzerland,

where trade negotiations between the U.S. and China were taking place.

So the United States and China were meeting, really officially at least, for the first time, to talk about this ongoing trade war between both countries.

It was a big deal going into it just for the fact that they were having these talks.

But beyond the fact that the two delegations were meeting, Brian didn't know much.

The Trump administration would determine to keep these meetings a secret outside of the fact

that they were happening in Switzerland. It wasn't even entirely clear based on their one-line

announcement of their meetings with China if this was even going to be in Geneva itself.

That is how secret this was. So I decided the first day of talks on that Saturday to stake

out the lobby of the Intercontinental Hotel very early in the morning. Brian was on the lookout for

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and his entourage. And we're waiting there and basically the way it went was they

got into this convoy of black vehicles, tinted windows, and they were just waiting there, those

vehicles at the entrance of the hotel. And you've got basically a split second to make a really

simple decision. You're either going to follow them there or you're not. And I decided to follow

them there. So I ran to a taxi. There was a line of taxis there at the hotel naturally. And I told

the taxi driver to follow the convoy vehicles and do not stop until they stop driving, get out

of the car. The convoy, with Brian's taxi tailing get out of the car.

The convoy, with Brian's taxi tailing it, made its way to a private estate just outside Geneva's city center.

And it was there that the U.S. delegation, led by Bessent, would hammer out a temporary

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