Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast.

I'm Miles Parks.

I cover voting.

I'm Danielle Kurtzleben.

I cover the White House.

And I'm Domenico Montanara, senior political editor and correspondent.

Colleagues, it is another Friday.

We made it.

We did it.

Congratulations.

Well done.

Thank you.

Was it ever in question?

You know, maybe not for you.

Every day is a blessing, right, Miles?

Yeah. Thank you, colleague.

So we're going to start with President Trump's trip to China. He met with Xi Jinping to work through this laundry list of global concerns, the war in Iran, global trade.

Danielle, what do we know about what came out of this trip? Well, we don't know a lot thus far, but what we do know is that

not a lot concrete really changed during this visit. So there are a few big topics that they

discussed. From what we understand, the U.S. and China talked about Taiwan. It remains a big point of contention. China, of course, maintains that Taiwan is a part of the People's Republic of China. The U.S. position on Taiwan did not change during this visit. The U.S. position on Taiwan is an acknowledgement that the People's Republic of China claims Taiwan,

but the U.S. doesn't full on agree with them. That is a very, very summary view of it. Beyond that,

we do know some things that Trump says, but we are waiting to hear what China confirms. For example, on the Iran war,

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