China Decode: The Trump-Xi Meeting That Could Reshape the Global Economy

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. This is all about vibes. The Chinese understand this very, very well, and they are willing to play the positive music for Trump coming in because he needs to score a real foreign policy gain and he will try to do that in Beijing with nothing really substantive, maybe a Chinese promise to to increase ag purchases and Boeing purchases coming out of the summit. Welcome to China Decode. I'm Alice Hahn.

And I'm James King. In today's episode of China Decode, we're discussing the most consequential Trump Xi meeting yet, how China is quietly absorbing Western innovation, and why Xi keeps purging China's top military leadership. That's all coming up, but first let's do a quick check-in with how the market. Are starting the week. On Monday, Chinese stocks rallied with the Shanghai composite index breaking above 4,200 points to hit its highest level in over a decade.

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