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Live from NPR News, I'm Dale Wilman.

President Joe Biden is in Peru at this hour, where he'll meet later today with Chinese

leader Xi Jinping.

Biden hopes to strengthen the U.S. relationship with Xi before Donald Trump moves

into the White House.

Trump campaigned on an America-first platform and has threatened to levy major tariffs

on Chinese goods.

And Pierre Osmohal is at the meeting and says Trump is a major topic of discussion there.

One big unknown, though, heading into the next administration is whether Trump is going to make good on his campaign promise to hike tariffs again on China.

I will say broadly, the Biden administration believes that this relationship with

China is hugely important and how it goes could affect the world in the coming decades.

That's NPR's Asma Khalid. Earlier this week, Trump nominated Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead

the Health and Human Services Department. But as NPR's Selena Simmons-Duffin reports,

Kennedy's support for abortion access could make his Senate confirmation difficult.

Kennedy spent much of his career as an environmental activist and later promoted vaccine conspiracy theories.

Some Republicans, including former Vice President Mike Pence, are concerned about his support for abortion access.

Kennedy explained his view in May on a podcast with host

Sage Steele. I wouldn't leave it to the States. Right. I would. You would say completely,

it's up to the woman. My belief is we should leave it to the woman. We shouldn't have government

involved. Even if it's full term. Even if it's full term. Republicans are eager to curtail abortion access once they take power in Washington,

and the Secretary of HHS is an important position to further that goal.

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