Taiwan arms sales, Board of Trade, and Chinamaxxing
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🗓️ 18 May 2026
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| 0:00.0 | NPR. |
| 0:11.7 | Arms sales to Taiwan, a new board of trade. |
| 0:15.5 | These were discussed when President Trump met with Chinese president Xi Jinping last week. |
| 0:19.9 | This wasn't an earth-shattering summit, though. |
| 0:22.8 | The buzzword from Xi Jinping was stability. |
| 0:26.1 | That said, coinciding with the talks, we did see a handful of Chinese companies approved |
| 0:30.6 | by the U.S. to buy some of NVIDIA's high-tech chips. |
| 0:34.3 | That's according to Reuters. |
| 0:35.9 | There are also suggestions that China would now buy billions |
| 0:38.5 | worth of U.S. agricultural goods. There was a lot of anticipation ahead of this meeting. |
| 0:43.2 | Trump was flanked by an entourage of American business leaders, including Elon Musk and |
| 0:48.1 | Apple's Tim Cook. And you know, all this got me thinking about one word, China Maxing. |
| 0:55.1 | This is the indicator for Planet Money. |
| 0:57.6 | I'm Adrienne Ma. |
| 0:58.8 | Here with Whalen Wong and Darien Woods. |
| 1:01.4 | Today on the show are three takeaways from the Trump-She meeting. |
| 1:05.0 | We'll cover why Taiwan was such a high priority for President Xi, |
| 1:09.2 | learn about the Board of Trade and mind the depths |
| 1:11.7 | of TikTok to explain what China maxing's all about. |
| 1:15.9 | All right, we are talking about President Trump's China visit. |
| 1:19.5 | Darian, you go first. |
| 1:21.0 | So I'd like to talk about what Chinese President Xi Jinping said was his top priority. |
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