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What recent trade agreements were reached between the U.S. and China?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Louise Schiavone. Trade negotiators from the U.S. and China say they have reached a tentative agreement that would head off some of the most onerous tariffs and export restrictions threatened by both countries. The progress was reported as leaders gathered for the annual summit of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations in Malaysia.
NPR's Emily Fang reports this sets up a highly anticipated meeting between President Trump and China's leader, Xi Jinping.
Issues like rare earths and China's refusal to buy American soybeans were top of the agenda. Chinese trade negotiator Li Chenggang told reporters in Malaysia where the talks were held that the two countries had a, quote, substantive exchange.
And also that the U.S.
presented its views forcefully, but China protected its interests. Meanwhile, U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Besant told Sunday Morning Talk shows that an extra 100 percent tariff that President Trump had threatened was, quote, effectively off the table now, as was a potentially punishing export control regime that China was trialing for rare earth materials. Emily Fang, NPR News.
Israel has approved teams from the Red Cross and Egypt to enter Gaza to search for the bodies of hostages. NPR's Rob Schmitz reports from Tel Aviv.
The Egyptian team, which specializes in search and rescue operations and in dismantling explosive devices, entered the strip accompanied by several engineering vehicles to help locate the bodies of deceased Israeli hostages. Their bodies are believed to be in areas that have been booby-trapped.
For days, there have been discussions over allowing teams into Gaza to help recover the remaining 13 deceased Israeli hostages, as well as deceased Palestinians under the rubble. In a post on Truth Social, President Trump warned Hamas to return the bodies of hostages or the countries involved in the peace plan will take action. Among the bodies of hostages remaining in Gaza are two Americans.
Rob Schmitz, NPR News, Tel Aviv.
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