What do American businesses want from China?
Here & Now Anytime
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🗓️ 14 May 2026
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Then, during the summit, President Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping have focused on trade, security, and stability.NPR China correspondent Jennifer Pak in Beijing shares the latest from the summit. And, Scott Tong reports from China on a podcast called StoryFM, modeled after This American Life. He speaks with Kou Aizhe, the show's creator, about being inspired by American podcasts and how he's able to get Chinese people to tell frank, honest stories that might be embarrassing or shameful, in a culture that is conformist where private things stay private.
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| 0:00.0 | WBUR Podcasts, Boston. |
| 0:06.0 | How much closer will the U.S. economy be to China and how much will the Trump administration follow through on its pledge to help American companies and help American industry fend off the threat from Chinese investment. |
| 0:22.0 | Making the world safe for business, and incidentally, the Trump Organization. |
| 0:36.5 | It's Thursday, May 14th, and this is here and now anytime from NPR and WBOR. |
| 0:42.2 | I'm Chris Bentley. |
| 0:45.8 | Today on the show, Trump's been called a lot of things. |
| 0:50.0 | Transactional is maybe his most prosaic label. |
| 0:53.4 | And that's something Chinese leaders get. |
| 0:55.5 | You know, they do find Trump unpredictable. But Trump may very well be the only or maybe even |
| 1:03.0 | the last president that China feels it can work with because it understands Trump. |
| 1:08.3 | We'll also get a glimpse of the Chinese version of this American life coming up in a few |
| 1:13.8 | minutes. |
| 1:14.7 | But first, the president is representing American interests in China. |
| 1:19.8 | But if you look at who's traveling with him, you could maybe more accurately say he's |
| 1:23.7 | representing the interests of American businesses. |
| 1:26.8 | Elon Musk, apples's Tim Cook and |
| 1:29.2 | NVIDIA's Jensen Huang, were among the CEOs listening in as President Trump met with |
| 1:35.0 | President Xi Jinping of China. The Trump family has its own financial interests in Asia. That's |
| 1:42.9 | something that Joe Miller has been reporting on for the |
| 1:45.1 | Financial Times. He told Robin Young that one of the things Trump is eager to announce from his |
| 1:50.5 | trip to China is a trillion dollar investment pledge. There is obviously an element to this |
| 1:57.0 | that is focused on agriculture, on tourism. There's been a lot of emphasis in recent months |
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