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🗓️ 29 December 2025
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| 0:00.0 | Support for NPR comes from NPR member stations and Eric and Wendy Schmidt through the Schmidt Family Foundation, |
| 0:07.4 | working toward a healthy, resilient, secure world for all. On the web at theshmit.org. |
| 0:15.0 | Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst. President Trump and Ukrainian President Zelensky have concluded |
| 0:22.8 | a meeting they held at Trump's Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Florida. NPR's Daniel Kurtzleben |
| 0:29.2 | reports. Both leaders said they made progress as they discussed a peace proposal for the war in Ukraine. |
| 0:35.3 | Zelensky and Trump said they agreed on several issues, |
| 0:37.8 | but acknowledged that they're still discussing sticking points, like withdrawing troops from the |
| 0:41.7 | Donbos region in eastern Ukraine, and also the fate of a Russian-occupied nuclear plant in |
| 0:46.8 | southeastern Ukraine. When asked about how long it might take to come to a full agreement, |
| 0:51.7 | Trump was non-committal. So if it went really well, you know, maybe a few weeks, and if it went poorly longer, |
| 0:58.5 | and if it went really poorly, it's not going to happen. |
| 1:01.4 | That would be a shame. |
| 1:02.3 | Trump spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin before the meeting and told reporters |
| 1:05.9 | he would also talk to him after the meeting. |
| 1:08.7 | Danielle Kurtzleben and PR News. |
| 1:11.5 | China applauded a ceasefire between Thailand and Cambodia that just took effect |
| 1:16.5 | as the top three diplomats from all three countries, or the top diplomats rather, met in China |
| 1:21.5 | today. |
| 1:22.4 | And peers Emily Fang reports. |
| 1:23.8 | China's top diplomat, Wang Yi, said the ceasefire was, quote, an important step towards restoring peace. |
| 1:30.0 | Wang Yi is also hosting both Thailand and Cambodia's top diplomats in China's province of Yunnan, which borders Southeast Asia. |
| 1:37.8 | The on and off again border dispute between Cambodia and Thailand has flared several times since this summer. |
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