Trump–Xi Meeting Suggests Leaders Headed Toward Decoupling
Crossroads with Joshua Philipp
The Epoch Times
4.9 • 594 Ratings
🗓️ 3 November 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
The United States is moving toward a larger break from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). This emerging reality came to the forefront during a key meeting between President Donald Trump and CCP leader Xi Jinping. While they were able to make a deal, the broader picture suggests the countries will move further apart.
We’ll discuss this topic, and others, in this episode of Crossroads.
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| 0:00.0 | President Trump and Chinese Communist Party leader Xi Jinping, they just met, and signs are pointing |
| 0:05.7 | to the U.S. moving towards a great decoupling from the Chinese regime, despite a deal being made. |
| 0:11.8 | Now, I'll be giving my take on what the meeting and deals actually signify. And on the topics of the |
| 0:17.5 | Trump-She meeting, the CCP is also saying it will do more to help reduce |
| 0:21.7 | these shipments of fentanyl. But I'd say this is just another example of the CCP method at play. |
| 0:28.1 | Also, meanwhile, Trump is also suggesting possible U.S. intervention in Nigeria, where Christians |
| 0:35.1 | are now facing yet another genocide. And there's a whole lot happening in the world right now. |
| 0:40.3 | I'm the Epitimes Senior Investigator reporter Joshua Phillip, |
| 0:43.3 | and you're listening to Crossroads. |
| 0:49.3 | The United States is moving towards the great decoupling we've long been talking about from the Chinese Communist Party. |
| 0:58.4 | And this actually came to the forefront during a key meeting between President Trump and CCP leader Xi Jinping. |
| 1:04.1 | And while they were able to make a deal, which you probably all heard about a little bit by now. The broader picture suggests something else. |
| 1:12.4 | The two countries are moving further apart. |
| 1:15.7 | Now, Fox News said this. |
| 1:17.3 | It said President Donald Trump spent the week in Asia |
| 1:19.7 | meeting with other global leaders, |
| 1:21.5 | including Chinese President Xi Jinping, |
| 1:24.6 | unelected president, but president apparently, while his administration ramped up its attacks |
| 1:30.7 | against alleged drugboats in Latin America. And it said Trump met with Xi Thursday in South Korea, |
| 1:37.0 | where the two hashed out a series of agreements concerning trade, and specifically, Trump said he |
| 1:41.4 | agreed to cut tariffs on Chinese imports by 10%, which means actually |
| 1:48.4 | still pretty dang high tariffs. It reduced it from 57% to 47%. But I know that's because China |
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