China Decode: Trump Promised to Be Tough on China. Xi Outplayed Him.

Hogging seats on a crowded train, not saying excuse me, watching videos on your phone with no headphones in. Sometimes it feels like we don't know how to act anymore. What we have been seeing, increasingly, is people breaking rules. Why should I play by the rules if nobody else is going to do that for me? This week on Explain It to Me, how to mind your manners.

New episodes Sundays wherever you get your podcasts. For the first time ever, the Chinese leader had the upper hand in this summit. And the potentially game-changing outcome was that the US and China are now trying to work together to put into place what China calls a constructive China-US relationship of strategic stability. Welcome to China Decode. I'm Alice Hahn.

And I'm James King. In today's episode of China Decode, we're discussing the post-game analysis of the Trump She summit, what Apple, Tesla, and Nvidia stand to gain after the trip, and the infusion of technology and creativity that Chinese companies are bringing to this year's Gann Film Festival in France. That's all coming up, but first let's do a quick check-in with how the Chinese markets are starting the week. On Monday, the Shanghai Composite Index ticked up 0.2%, standout stocks including Nara Technology, a semiconductor equipment firm up 4.9%, and Huagong Tech up 10%, with positive signals through the AI and semiconductor.

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