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Stay Tuned with Preet

Is China Beating Us? (with Evan Osnos)

Stay Tuned with Preet

Vox Media Podcast Network

News, Society & Culture, Politics, Government

4.832.4K Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2026

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

What did the Trump-Xi summit reveal about the future of global power? On a new episode of Stay Tuned, New Yorker staff writer Evan Osnos joins Preet Bharara just after returning from Beijing, where he covered the Trump-Xi summit and the rapidly evolving relationship between the United States and China. They discuss Trump and Xi’s contrasting leadership styles, Taiwan, NATO, America’s standing in the world, and the growing race between the U.S. and China to shape the future of artificial intelligence. The conversation also explores what AI could mean for journalism, creativity, and human originality itself. Then, Preet shares some reflections from the Bruce Springsteen Tour. In the bonus for Insiders, Preet and Evan continue their conversation with a discussion about billionaires, political power, and why Americans remain both skeptical of wealth and deeply aspirational about success. Join the CAFE Insider community to stay informed without the hysteria, fear-mongering, or rage-baiting. Head to cafe.com/insider to sign up. Thank you for supporting our work. Show notes and a transcript of the episode are available on our website.  You can now watch this episode! Head to the Stay Tuned Youtube channel and subscribe. Have a question for Preet? Ask @PreetBharara on BlueSky, or Twitter with the hashtag #AskPreet. Email us at staytuned@cafe.com, or call 833-997-7338 to leave a voicemail.Stay Tuned with Preet is brought to you by CAFE and the Vox Media Podcast Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

From Cafe and the Vox Media Podcast Network, welcome to stay tuned.

0:05.6

I'm Preet Bharara.

0:08.0

The Chinese side came in feeling as if they had figured out how to work both with and against Trump.

0:15.6

He was inclined to try to create moments of crisis, and then if they stood up to him, they were almost

0:22.8

uniquely capable of making him back down.

0:29.4

Welcome to stay tuned. I'm Freed Barrara. My guest this week is Evan Osnos. He is, as many

0:35.2

listeners of this show know, an author and a staff writer at The New Yorker.

0:39.3

Evan is a frequent guest of the show because he has the rare ability to explain power from the

0:42.9

inside out. He does this through deeply reported human-scale portraits of leaders, systems, and

0:48.2

national change. One of his main areas of coverage has been China, and he's just returned from

0:52.9

Beijing, where he was covering

0:54.5

the historic Trump-Shi summit. That's coming up. Stay tuned.

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