Trump heads to China for crucial talks with Xi Jinping
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.3K Ratings
🗓️ 13 May 2026
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
President Trump is travelling to Beijing, on the first trip to China by a US leader since he last went there in 2017. The main focus of his highly significant talks with Xi Jinping will be the tense trade relationship between the two superpowers. President Trump said he would also have a "long chat" with President Xi about Iran.
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FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump shakes hands with Chinese President Xi Jinping as they hold a bilateral meeting at Gimhae International Airport, on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit, in Busan, South Korea, October 30, 2025. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein/File Photo
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Global News Podcasts. |
| 0:08.0 | This is the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:11.8 | I'm Janet Jalil and in the early hours of Wednesday the 13th of May, these are our main stories. |
| 0:18.3 | Donald Trump heads to Beijing in a visit set to test the fragile truce between |
| 0:23.0 | the world's two biggest economies. The US president also says he's in talks with Cuba, which has |
| 0:29.9 | been under pressure from Washington's oil blockade for months. We have the latest from the court battle |
| 0:36.0 | between two of the biggest names in tech, Elon Musk and Sam Altman. |
| 0:43.2 | Also in this podcast, police in Sicily investigate illegal racing with horse-drawn carts and Kalashnikovs. |
| 0:52.4 | And after our one-time immune therapy, we have several individuals |
| 0:56.8 | that are suppressing the virus long term. One individual is almost two years and another |
| 1:02.5 | individual is almost a year. Researchers behind a new pioneering type of HIV treatment tell us |
| 1:09.6 | how it works. |
| 1:19.9 | Donald Trump is on his way to China for a high-stakes meeting with a Chinese leader Xi Jinping, |
| 1:26.9 | with their talks expected to be dominated by two wars that have not gone the way the US president wanted, |
| 1:30.1 | the war in Iran and his trade war. |
| 1:35.9 | The first saw Mr. Trump delay the summit by six weeks in the expectation of a swift victory. |
| 1:41.4 | Instead, he's now struggling to find a way to end Iran's blockade of the Strait of Hormuz. |
| 1:48.1 | And the second saw him impose hefty tariffs on China and other countries only for them to be reversed or diluted. |
| 1:50.4 | Before he left, Mr. Trump said that while he would have a long talk with Mr. Xi about Iran, |
| 1:55.8 | he didn't need China's help to end the conflict. |
| 1:59.6 | Well, I think number one, we're going to have a long talk about it. |
| 2:03.3 | I think he's been relatively good, to be honest with you. |
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