Trump Meets With China's Xi, Asia's View Of Summit, Trump Targets Law Firms
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🗓️ 14 May 2026
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China's readout of the meeting between the two leaders emphasized the need for "constructive strategic stability" and warned that mishandling Taiwan could put the entire U.S.-China relationship in jeopardy.
And President Trump's crackdown on big law firms goes before a federal appeals court today, as firms that once employed lawyers who investigated Trump fight back against executive orders that targeted their security clearances and government contracts.
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(0:00) Introduction
(01:51) Trump Meets With Xi
(05:49) China's Readout Of Meeting
(08:51) Trump Targets Law Firms
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| 0:00.0 | China's president used a summit with President Trump to repeat a warning about Taiwan. |
| 0:06.8 | President Trump called his visit the biggest summit ever, but AIDS negotiated until the last |
| 0:12.0 | moment over what to announce, if anything. |
| 0:14.1 | I'm Michelle Martin in Washington, D.C., Steven's Keep is in Beijing, and this is up first from NPR News. |
| 0:22.1 | What does China mean when it talks about constructive strategic stability? |
| 0:26.5 | NPR China correspondent Jennifer Pack explains. |
| 0:29.5 | And back in this country, an appeals court considers the president's effort to punish |
| 0:33.1 | law firms he doesn't like. |
| 0:34.8 | The president targeted lawyers for representing his political opponents. |
| 0:38.4 | Lower courts cited with attorneys, but the president has not given up. Stay with us. We'll give you |
| 0:43.0 | news you need to start your day. |
| 0:51.3 | Two presidents have been talking here in China's capital. |
| 0:54.8 | President Trump met with China's President Xi Jinping in the Great Hall of the People. |
| 0:58.9 | Each side has released an account of their conversation. |
| 1:01.9 | And each account suggests the leaders repeated familiar themes rather than breaking new ground. |
| 1:06.8 | The U.S. version of the talk says they discussed getting American products into China. |
| 1:11.1 | China says she repeated a familiar warning to the U.S. version of the talk says they discussed getting American products into China. China says she repeated a familiar warning to the U.S. over Taiwan. |
| 1:15.2 | The American version never mentions Taiwan. |
| 1:17.5 | According to the Chinese, Trump said things in private that were very much like he's saying in public. |
| 1:22.1 | And there are those that say this is maybe the biggest summit ever. |
| 1:25.9 | They can never remember anything like it. It's, I can say, |
| 1:28.7 | in the United States, it's people aren't talking about anything else. NPR's senior political |
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