It's the Media Buzz Meter with Howard Kurtz.

Stephen Colbert was hanging out with four of his friends last night, the two Jimmy's, Kimmel and Fallon, along with John Oliver and Seth Myers, as he begins his final week on the air at the late show.

And they said that John Stewart was the designated survivor.

And these other late night hosts, the ones in the same time slot,

are just going to air like reruns so that on the final night for Colbert,

he will not be competing against any other live late night show.

I mean, these are all rivals, but now with Colbert going.

And Kimmel was the most ticked off.

I would tell you when I got knocked off the air for a few days, people canceled Disney Plus.

Why aren't you people canceling Paramount Plus?

Because you didn't have it in the first place.

Anyway, they tried to make the case for late night TV.

Seth Meyer saying, the leaders of the free world are watching it.

All right, let's turn to China.

Story number one.

This happened today, our time.

And everybody is sort of going to the same leave, which is that Xi Jinping warning Donald Trump,

that conflicts, that's the word that's most often cited, could

emerge if the two of them mishandle Taiwan.

And Taiwan, the democracy that Beijing still considers to be part of the mainland, is clearly

the big priority for the Beijing government.

Now this was behind closed doors in the great hall of the people.

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