Celia Hatton

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This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.

I'm Celia Hatton, and at 1500 GMT on Wednesday, May the 13th, these are our main stories. President Trump has arrived in Beijing for a meeting with China's leader Xi Jinping. There were warm words ahead of the visit, but the two men will have to navigate many areas of disagreement. And in Beijing, the king has formally opened a new session of parliament, laying out the government's agenda for the next year, all as the prime minister, Keir Starmer, faces increasing pressure to step down.

Also in this podcast... Plans for a Trump megatower are cancelled in Australia.

We start with the superpower summit in China. The US president Donald Trump has landed in Beijing, where he'll meet the Chinese leader Xi Jinping for intensive talks. My colleague in Beijing, Steve Lai, described the moments immediately after Mr. Trump's plane touched down.

China said Mr. Trump's visit could be the start of a new chapter in relations between the superpowers in a turbulent world. Mr. Trump is being treated to a state visit, but significant tensions remain between the two countries. And there are a number of complex issues the U.S. and Chinese delegations will need to navigate. Battles over trade and the fight to dominate strategically important technologies like AI mean the two sides will have some very difficult conversations ahead of them.

So even if this visit seems friendly, with Donald Trump predicting several times that Xi Jinping will be giving him a big hug, there's a lot at stake here. For an idea of what's on the agenda, here's our China correspondent Laura Bicker.

So that's the view from China, but what about the United States? What does Donald Trump want from this trip to Beijing? Sarah Smith, the BBC's North America editor, spoke to Justin Webb about the president's agenda.

Donald Trump is concentrating on the economics of this trip, and that's what he wants to take away from it. Increased investment from China in America, building factories there and putting money into the country, and also agreeing to buy more American goods, principally Boeing planes, American beef and American soybeans. The agricultural products were hit quite hard when Donald Trump first imposed tariffs on China last year.

He started sourcing soybeans from other countries in South America, and that really hit American farmers hard, and that could hurt Donald Trump. So he needs to get those sales back on track, and he'll come back and say that he has scored some major economic investment.

It's quite telling that on the plane with him on the way to China, he has almost 20 of America's biggest CEOs, including Elon Musk, Tim Cook of Apple, Jensen Wang from Nvidia. They're all on the plane with him to go and make economic deals here, rather than, say, talking about national security or military geopolitical issues, which you might more normally expect a US president and a Chinese leader to talk about.

In return for that economic progress, what do we understand he is willing to give? What does America have to bring to the table? Well, there's been some discussion about Taiwan and whether or not Donald Trump would change America's position on that. Could he be persuaded to say out loud...

that he doesn't think Taiwan should be an independent country. Maybe not, but the fact that it's on the table at all may mean that he'll hint in that direction. And China would very much like Donald Trump to delay or ideally cancel a lot of weapons sales to Taiwan that are scheduled from America. And as he was leaving the White House, Donald Trump said that he knew President Xi would very much like the US not to supply those weapons to Taiwan, and I'll have that discussion.

He said. So there is definitely something on the table there that they can talk about. And inevitably the Iran war will come up, because this is going to overshadow the whole of this trip. It's causing problems for both America and China, for both Trump and Xi. Donald Trump could do with President Xi's help in trying to persuade Iran to come to the table and do a deal. He said as he was leaving America he didn't need help with Iran, but he probably does.

jätti tämän keskustelun kuusi viikolla Iranin vuodesta takaisin, että nyt hän olisi voinut mennä Beijingiin näyttämällä victorina. Hän on voinut vahvistaa Iranin ja antaa sille nukleaarit, mutta se ei ole aivan se tilanne, jossa hän on ollut. Sen sijaan Kiina on kärsinyt hieman suurta öljyä ja se, että moni öljy- ja kaasutekot Iranista, jotka menevät Kiinalle, on vahvistettu. Se käsittelee kaiken.

It does make it significantly more difficult for Donald Trump, I think, to get what he wants, because he's the one who looks as though he's been unable to finish this conflict in Iran. Sarah Smith. Apart from discussions on trade, Iran and Taiwan, one of the other issues President Trump is expected to discuss with the Chinese leader Xi Jinping is the case of the imprisoned Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy Lai. Our reporter Danny Vincent has more.

Danny Vincent. Now to central London, where ceremonies have been taking place for the formal opening of a new session of Britain's parliament. King Charles traveled by horse-drawn carriage from Buckingham Palace to the Houses of Parliament to lay out the government's agenda for the coming year.

All this took place at a critical period in UK politics. The speech was written by the government of the Prime Minister, Keir Starmer. He was watching on as his future hangs in the balance. It was only on Tuesday, a day ago, that many thought Mr. Starmer would be forced to stand down by members of his own ruling Labour Party. And there are still questions about how long he'll remain in charge. Our political correspondent is Rob Watson.

Kuten sanoit, Rob, kerro meille enemmän tästä vanhemmasta ministeriä, joka voisi saada vaikutuksen. Miksi kaikki tämä on tullut kiinni Kirstarmerista nyt?