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President Trump's long-awaited meeting with China's leader, Xi Jinping, has resulted in

some success for both sides with agreements on

rare earth minerals and tariffs. But while these deals may be a welcome sign of diplomatic

engagement, Trump's unexpected order to start nuclear weapons testing again for the first time

in 33 years grabbed the bigger headlines. Matt Pottinger served as the president's deputy national

security advisor during his first term, and he was a particularly influential voice regarding

the administration's China policy, and he's joining the program live now from Utah.

Matt Pottinger, welcome to the program.

Thanks, Christian. We're good to be with you. So tell me, is this a big deal?

Give me the sort of the wins and loses, if any, on what Xi got, what Trump got, what China got, what the U.S. got out of their meeting.

Yeah, so this is the first time that President Trump has met in person with Xi Jinping in six

years. It was back in Osaka at the G20 in 2019 that they last met. So I would call it sort of

a fragile truce on trade matters that came out of this.

China is not going forward with its most draconian threat, which was to regulate all trade between

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