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Laura Coates Live

Soon: Trump & Xi Hold Final Meeting of High-Stakes Summit

Laura Coates Live

CNN

News

3.92.5K Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2026

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Xi Jinping hailed the US-China relationship as the world’s most consequential, telling Trump: “We must make it work and never mess it up.” He also said Taiwan “is the most important issue in China-US relations” and it could create a “highly dangerous situation” if mishandled. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Good evening, everyone.

0:33.4

I'm Laura Coates, picking up the live coverage of President Trump's second and final sit down with Chinese President

0:38.8

with Xi Jinping in Beijing. They're going to meet in what is the equivalent of the White House, Zhang Nanghai. Only a handful of Americans have ever stepped foot inside of it. And moments from now, the two leaders will sit down to talk over tea and then lunch before the president departs Beijing and

0:56.0

returns home. The question will be, what did either side get out of this two-day summit?

1:03.0

And we'll try to do anything to actually help end the war in Iran. Now, Trump says that

1:08.1

yesterday's meeting went well. He says Xi even offered to lend a hand with Iran, but we'll see.

1:15.2

And Xi apparently made it clear that his priority is Taiwan.

1:19.7

According to state media, Xi flat out told Trump, if the Taiwan issue is handled poorly,

1:25.9

it would put the U.S.-China relationship in a, quote, extremely dangerous situation.

1:31.7

Translation, don't test us.

1:34.3

Let's begin with CNN's senior White House correspondent, Kristen Holmes, who is traveling with the president in Beijing.

1:40.9

Kristen, good to see. You've been an excellent job with the report and keeping us

1:44.6

a surprise of everything. I mean, the president talked to Fox earlier about yesterday's summit.

1:49.8

He said it went well, but he didn't give a lot of details. So what are we expecting to hear

1:53.9

from this final face to face? Well, Laura, this is really the last time these two leaders are going to sit down, and this is when they're going to hammer out all of those details.

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