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Anna Fifield: Former Washington Post Asia-Pacific Editor on the meeting between Donald Trump and Xi Jinping · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: All smile so far in the bilateral This is Trump
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  Speaker 1: and She in Beijing.
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  Speaker 2: You're a great leader. I say it to everybody, You're
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  Speaker 2: a great leader.
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  Speaker 3: Sometimes people don't like me saying it, but I say
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  Speaker 3: it anyway. The whole world is watching our meeting. Currently,
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  Speaker 3: transformation not seen in a century is accelerating across the globe,
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  Speaker 3: and the international situation is fluid and turbulent. The world
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  Speaker 3: has come to a new crossroads. Can China and the
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  Speaker 3: United States overcome the Fuciddy's trap now?
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  Speaker 1: As we mentioned earlier, Taiwan is the big issue for
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  Speaker 1: China and a firefield. Asia Pacific expert former Washington Post
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  Speaker 1: Asia Pacific editor with me live this morning and a
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  Speaker 1: good morning, Good morning Ryan. Any missteps so far or
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  Speaker 1: is it basically all to plan and all sticking to
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  Speaker 1: their lines.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I think the biggest missteps so far is actually
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  Speaker 2: an emission, and that is that she didn Pin came
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  Speaker 2: out with some very strong language on Taiwan, saying that
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  Speaker 2: if this issue was missing managed, that it could lead
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  Speaker 2: to a clash. Taiwan is a democratic island exists separately
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  Speaker 2: from mainland China, but China and Shijinping in particular want
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  Speaker 2: to take control of it. And usually when China has
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  Speaker 2: said something like this, the American president has pushed back.
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  Speaker 2: That is something that Joe Biden did, but Trump said
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  Speaker 2: nothing at all. He pretended he hadn't heard the comments
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  Speaker 2: and moved on. And so that's causing a lot of
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  Speaker 2: worry in Taiwan overnight as people think that as Trump
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  Speaker 2: moving the dial on Taiwan and something less willing for
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  Speaker 2: the US to defend them or back them up.
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  Speaker 1: Now they both agree that the straight up for Moses
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  Speaker 1: got to open up. Obviously that's in everybody's interest, but
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  Speaker 1: did they talk about how.
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  Speaker 3: Not.
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  Speaker 2: As far as we know, they didn't say that. They
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  Speaker 2: both had that interest. And the US basically went to
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  Speaker 2: this summit's desperate for China to help to use its
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  Speaker 2: leverage over Iran, but there have been no details whatsoever
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  Speaker 2: on what Iran might actually be willing to do. That's
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  Speaker 2: kind of the nitty gritty that we wouldn't expect to
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  Speaker 2: see in the readout from the meeting. But over the
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  Speaker 2: next few days, I guess we'll see just how far
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  Speaker 2: China is willing to help the US clean up its
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  Speaker 2: mess in the Middle East.
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  Speaker 1: And thanks for your analysis and a five field Asia
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  Speaker 1: Pacific expert former Washington Post Asia Pacific editor. For more
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