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President Trump met with Chinese President Xi Jinping at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, with top U.S. tech CEOs in attendance, as both nations sought to stabilize a trade relationship strained by years of tension — while Xi issued a pointed warning over Taiwan.
오늘 에피소드에는 외교와 무역 관련 표현이 많이 등장합니다. 특히 “put on a stable footing(안정된 기반 위에 올려놓다)”처럼 영어에서는 추상적인 개념을 물리적 이미지로 표현하는 경우가 많습니다. 이런 관용 표현을 통째로 외워 두면 뉴스 영어 이해력이 크게 높아집니다.
China’s president used the summit with President Trump to repeat a warning about Taiwan.
President Trump called his visit the biggest summit ever,
but aides negotiated
until the last moment over what to announce, if anything.
President Trump met with China’s President Xi Jinping in the Great Hall of the People. Each side has released an account of their conversation, and each account suggests the leaders repeated familiar themes
rather than breaking new ground.
The U.S. version of the talk says they discussed getting American products into China. China says Xi repeated a familiar warning to the U.S. over Taiwan. The American version never mentions Taiwan.
NPR’s senior political correspondent Tamara Keith has been traveling with the president. She’s with us here in Beijing. Hi, Tam. So give me the big picture. What does Trump want out of this summit?
True to his brand,
wherever Trump goes, he is looking to make deals,
and it’s not just the president himself. More than a dozen top corporate leaders from the U.S. are part of the delegation
here. Tesla’s Elon Musk and Jensen Huang of Nvidia, which makes chips that are powering the AI boom, both flew with Trump on Air Force One. I saw Tim Cook of Apple earlier today as well. And Trump highlighted their presence in his remarks at the start of his first meeting with Xi.
“And they’re here today to pay respects to you and to China. And they look forward to trade and doing business, and it’s going to be totally reciprocal
on our behalf.”
Of course, the reality of doing business in China is vastly more complicated than Trump makes it sound. But this is basically a year after Trump launched a trade war,
and then China struck back. And both countries are now looking to put the trade relationship on at least a little bit more of a stable footing.
This summit began with a ceremony this morning, Beijing time, at the Great Hall of the People. And you got to be there. What was it like?
There were red carpets for miles. There was a military demonstration
with soldiers marching in perfect synchrony.
A military band played the U.S. national anthem as cannons were fired from Tiananmen Square. Dozens of children were welcoming President Trump, chanting a welcome while holding artificial flowers and American and Chinese flags. They’re jumping up and down, waving the flags. President Trump is clearly charmed by all of these children.
So these kids were perfectly well-behaved, perfectly lined up. And then once the leaders were out of view, they became real kids. And they were super wiggly and relieved, I think, to be able to stop