News - Trump Asia Tour and Xi Summit, RSF Massacres in Sudan, US Continues Bombing Boats Off South America Coast

American Prestige

Daniel Bessner & Derek Davison

History, Politics, News

4.8 • 705 Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Subscribe now to skip the ads and get more content! What’s spookier than international relations? This week in the news roundup: Trump tours Asia to talk trade deals (1:28), a Thai-Cambodia accord (7:11), and to meet with Xi (8:45); the RSF captures of Al-Fashir in Sudan with reports of mass killings (12:19); Gaza sees the deadliest day of Israeli bombardments since the ceasefire began (17:19); the PKK makes more concessions in talks with Ankara (21:53); Afghan-Pakistan ceasefire negotiations collapse in Istanbul (24:34); Myanmar rebel groups agree to a Chinese-brokered ceasefire (26:59); elections in Ivory Coast and Cameroon keep longtime incumbents in power (29:44); Nigeria’s military sees a shake-up amid rumors of a coup plot (33:30); Dutch elections sideline Geert Wilders and the far-right (36:26); Trump freezes trade talks with Canada and raises tariffs over an ad (39:50); the UN General Assembly votes to condemn the U.S. embargo on Cuba (42:35); the U.S. expands its boat-bombing campaign in the Pacific and sends a carrier to the Caribbean (44:21); and Trump suggests that the U.S. resume nuclear testing (47:57).

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0:00.0	You're listening to American Prestige.
0:02.7	To listen ad-free, you can subscribe at Americanprostagepod.com.
0:08.3	Find the link in our show notes.
0:13.0	That's kind of conversation to your soul.
0:18.7	That's conversation.
1:27.8	To your soul. And, I don't know if you've heard, but MTV is ceasing broadcasting in December, so I thought I should do a little tribute to that. Ceasing completely? Yeah, ceasing completely. Going to go to static video. I guess what is it? TikTok killed a video star? End of an era, baby. End of an era. But I didn't do it. What were they even doing now? It's just like real world reruns all the time or something, was it? I mean, like, yeah. I haven't watched it in quite a while, but the end of it. Time marches on. Gen X, your beautiful Gen X generation, Derek will never receive it still. Nothing left. We're never going to get to have a president. I was going to say probably won't have a president. Kamala was your... Has been taken away. Like, it's, yeah, we're going to disappear completely. Oh, fine. Finally. Well, good riddance. Well, hello, prestige heads. Welcome to American prestige. I'm Danny Bessner,
1:33.8	here as always is my friend and comrade at Derek Davison, and we are excited to bring you the news.
1:40.5	Sorry about starting off with that depressing reminder that time marches on. But let's start with Trump's Asia trip. Derek Trump is a deals man. He's a deals boy. He's a deals
1:47.1	gentleman. He made many deals on this trip. Let's talk about these trade deals. Many deals. Trump
1:53.4	was in Asia ostensibly to attend two summits. He attended the Association of Southeast Asian Nation Summit in Kuala Lumpur.
2:04.4	He was supposed to attend the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Summit in South Korea. We can get to that.
2:11.1	He didn't actually wind up attending that one. But he was there ostensibly to do these two
2:16.0	summits and to meet with various regional leaders,
2:18.3	as one does on the sidelines of these things, and do deals.
2:22.5	And so, yeah, he did a number of deals.
2:25.4	He completed, or concluded trade deals while he was in Kuala Lumpur,
2:32.8	with the Malaysian government,
2:34.6	with the Cambodian government,
2:36.5	he also concluded what they're calling framework arrangements
2:39.7	with the Thai government, the Vietnamese government,
2:42.8	the basic outline here,
2:44.5	and I don't want to go into all the details,
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