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Here's your morning brief for Thursday, October 30th. I'm Caitlin McCabe for the Wall Street Journal.

President Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping have emerged from their

first face-to-face meeting in six years with a number of steps to de-escalate trade tensions.

The two leaders met for nearly 90 minutes at an airbase in South Korea, following a bruising stretch

of fighting over trade and technology.

Following the meeting, Trump said the U.S. would lower tariffs on China in exchange for

Beijing's cooperation in cracking down on the export of chemicals used to produce fentanyl.

The agreement was part of a broader framework to reduce trade tensions, including on China, upping its soybean

purchases and easing its control on rare earth exports. President Trump has said on social media that

he has ordered the Pentagon to begin testing America's nuclear weapons on an equal basis with

Russia and China because of, quote, other countries' testing programs.

It wasn't immediately clear what prompted the post. In comments to reporters later,

Trump said the White House plans to issue more detail on the tests. He declined to explain

the reason for his move, but said it didn't relate to China. The White House didn't immediately

respond to a request for additional details. And Universal Music has settled a copyright dispute

with artificial intelligence music generator UDO, leading to a new platform trained on licensed

songs. Details of the financial terms of the settlement

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