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VIP treatment for China's President Xi at Mar-a-Lago
Donald Trump's campaign was full of tough talk about China. As President, he's talking tougher than ever -- especially about North Korea, which fired another missile yesterday. Tomorrow, at Mar-a-Lago, the President will give China's President Xi Jinping the full VIP treatment. Veteran diplomats say this week's summit is premature.
By Warren Olney • • 1 min readDonald Trump's campaign was full of tough talk about China. As President, he's talking tougher than ever -- especially about North Korea, which fired another missile yesterday. Tomorrow, at Mar-a-Lago, the President will give China's President Xi Jinping the full VIP treatment. Veteran diplomats say this week's summit is premature. By failing to demand any concessions from President Xi in advance of the meeting, did Trump give up an important advantage?
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Warren Olney
former KCRW broadcaster
Andrea Brody
Senior Producer, KCRW's Life Examined and To the Point podcast
Sáša Woodruff
Producer, 'To the Point'
Yael Even Or
Producer, 'Press Play'
Demetri Sevastopulo
Financial Times
Ely Ratner
Council on Foreign Relations
Joshua Pollack
Middlebury Institute for International Studies at Monterey
The full episode
2 of 3Trump talks tough on North Korea ahead of talks with Xi- 1:26US condemns inaction on Syria after chemical attack
- 8:01VIP treatment for China's President Xi at Mar-a-LagoYou’re reading this
- 40:59Trump blames Obama for Syria – and contradicts himself