Who's the boss? Xi issues Taiwan warning as Trump gushes over Chinese leader
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🗓️ 15 May 2026
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| 0:00.0 | Tonight, China's leader sends a warning shot over Taiwan, while the U.S. focuses on Iran. |
| 0:07.5 | Questions swirl over President Trump's claim that the Chinese offered to help end the war. |
| 0:13.1 | Then a potential trade truce, Beijing restores U.S. beef shipments to China, but will they actually follow through? |
| 0:19.4 | Plus, a new report claims the FBI director took |
| 0:21.8 | a VIP snorkeling trip in Hawaii at a sacred Pearl Harbor Memorial, as the 11th hour |
| 0:28.0 | gets underway on this Thursday night. |
| 0:34.0 | Hi, everyone. I'm Densaki in for Stephanie Ruhl, who I promise will'll be back. She is just under the weather tonight, so here I am. And we have a lot to get to tonight. It's currently 11 a.m. in Beijing, China, and President Donald Trump is getting ready to begin his second day of meetings with President Xi before returning to the United States. Later this hour, they're going to meet for tea and lunch, |
| 0:55.5 | how quaint. We will see what happens there and certainly talk about it. But so far the sharpest |
| 1:00.4 | words from either leader have been about Taiwan. She warned Trump that if the issue is handled |
| 1:05.5 | poorly, it could lead to conflict in an extremely dangerous situation. It's a bit of a warning shot there. |
| 1:11.8 | As for Trump, well, as we all suspected, he's on a bit of a charm offensive. |
| 1:16.8 | Why not? |
| 1:17.5 | He has all these business leaders traveling with him to China, and he wants his buddies to be happy on the way home. |
| 1:23.4 | So there's that. |
| 1:24.5 | Now, during a state dinner, Trump officially invited President Xi to visit Washington in September. And then there's the war Trump started in Iran. The White House says the two sides agreed that the Strait of Hormuz needs to be reopened and that Iran shouldn't control it. Okay? Sounds like something we've all heard before. Now, Trump also told Fox News that Xi says he wants to see a deal made to end the |
| 1:46.2 | war and even offered to help make that deal happen. But the man said a lot about the end to the war, |
| 1:53.7 | Trump, that is, in Iran in the last several weeks. So I am not holding my breath here. We will |
| 1:57.5 | certainly see. Tonight we start with MS Now White House reporter Laura Barron |
| 2:01.5 | Lopez, who is traveling with the president in Beijing tonight. Laura, it's great to see you. |
| 2:06.9 | I just want to, I just mentioned what Trump said on Fox. Do you have any more specifics and what he said, |
| 2:12.7 | I should say, President Xi told him during their meeting on how exactly China is willing to help end the war in Iran and why? |
| 2:22.2 | Well, there's actually been a lack of specifics, Jen. The most that we're getting have been from this |
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