Rosie Bloor
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first heard May 2026
last heard 13 May
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And I'm Rosie Blore.
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Tomorrow, Donald Trump and Xi Jinping will meet in Beijing.
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The two-day summit, originally scheduled for April, was delayed by the Iran War.
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Even so, both sides seem determined to make it happen.
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The meeting is the first of four between Trump and she planned for this year, a sign of the urgency both sides feel about calming this consequential, but often tempestuous relationship.
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Simon Rubinovich is our Beijing bureau chief and Chao Guang columnist.
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So just fill in a bit more of that context for us for a minute, Simon.
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Why were US-China relations quite so bad?
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So if we've got to the point where diplomacy is key, what can we actually expect from this summit?
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So what might they actually achieve now then?
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Simon, the focus may be on trade, but all sorts of other topics are likely to loom.
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What else can we expect?
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And what about other security issues?
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Simon, you've outlined a laundry list of thorny topics.
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It seems like the best case scenario for this week's summit might simply be that it happens, that things are stable.
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Simon, thank you very much.
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And if you want to hear more on what to expect from this summit, you can listen to the current episode of Checks and Balance, our weekly US podcast.
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And on next week's episode of Drum Tower, our China podcast, we'll be analysing how the great meeting went.
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Alexandra Sue Bass is our culture editor.
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