Trump and Xi Hold Summit as 2 NPR Reporters Discuss China Coverage in Beijing

9 articles · Updated · WBUR News · May 15

Beijing set the scene for a Here & Now segment in which Scott Tong and Steve Inskeep discussed President Donald Trump’s summit with President Xi Jinping.
The May 15 conversation focused on both the leaders’ meeting and what the two journalists had observed while reporting from China this week.
Tong, a Here & Now host, and Inskeep, host of Morning Edition, framed the summit through on-the-ground reporting rather than a formal policy readout.
The segment underscored Beijing’s central role in the week’s U.S.-China news cycle as coverage of the Trump-Xi meeting continued.

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