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in Beijing with his host, Chinese President Xi Jinping.
“In dinner remarks, Trump praised the U.S.-Chinese relationship.”
"The American and Chinese people share much in common. We value hard work. We value courage and achievement. We love our families and we love our countries. Together we have the chance to draw on these values to create a future of greater prosperity,
cooperation and happiness and peace for our children. We love our children. This region and the world, it's a special world with the two of us united and together." Trump has also formally invited Xi to the United States for a state visit in late September. He was in China, both released statements following Trump and Xi's meeting today.
China says it emphasized to the United States' differences over Taiwan could lead to conflict
between the U.S. and China.
The U.S. statement did not mention Taiwan at all. It said both countries agreed to improve economic ties. Taiwan's government is pushing back against China's warning that problems over Taiwan could lead to conflict, and PR's Anthony Cune reports. Following a meeting of Taiwan's Cabinet, Cabinet spokesperson Michelle Lee told reporters
that China's military threats are the sole source of instability in the Taiwan's straight and the region. She thanked the U.S. for its longstanding support of Taiwan. Other neighbors of China are watching the summit closely for any shifts in U.S. position. Japanese media, quote, "finance minister Satsuki Katayama," is telling visiting Treasury
Secretary Scott Bessenton Tuesday that China's treatment of Japan, such as cutting off rare Earth exports, is as she put it terrible and unfair.
She said the U.S. is promised to make this point to China, but there's been no word
of that from the summit so far. President Trump's board of peace is struggling to advance its plans for the rehabilitation of Gaza. Israel is violating the ceasefire Hamas is resisting calls to begin disarmament, and PR's Daniel Estrin has more from Tel Aviv.
Board of Peace, high representative Nikolai Maladanov, has been holding talks with Hamas officials and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. He gave a rare press conference Wednesday. We have a ceasefire. It is far from perfect.
There are violations every day. Gaza Health officials say Israel has killed more than 850 people there since the ceasefire was declared. Maladanov also said Hamas should give up control and disarm. We are asking the political leadership of those who govern Gaza now to step aside.
We're not asking Hamas to disappear as a political movement. Hamas says it will not give up control until a new Palestinian leadership committee enters Gaza. Daniel Estrin and PR news Tel Aviv. And you're listening to NPR news from Washington.
The Federal Aviation Administration says it will put transponders in vehicles that work at airports. This comes after two air Canada pilots were killed at LaGuardia airport in New York and March, their jet collided with an airport fire truck that did not have a transponder. In Mississippi, a special legislative session to redraw the state's Supreme Court maps
has been cancelled. Elise Gregg of the Gulf States Newsroom and Mississippi Public Broadcasting says that
“came after the U.S. Supreme Court gutted a key provision of the Voting Rights Act.”
A federal judge had originally ruled that those Mississippi Supreme Court districts violated the Voting Rights Act and needed to be redrawn. But with the collay decision, both parties in the case asked that the ruling be overturned. Governor Tate Reeves says because of that, there's no need for the special session that would have started next week.
But redistricting is still the goal. Here's Reeves on Super Talk Mississippi Media. "I would submit to you. We ought to take the entire map, legislative map, and we should take the entire Supreme Court map, and we should take the entire congressional map, and we should draw based upon partisanship."
In social media Reeves says he expects that to happen between now and elections in 2027. For NPR News, I'm Elise Gregg, in Jackson, Mississippi. Meanwhile, Georgia will redraw its congressional maps. Governor Brian Kempe has called a special legislative session for June. But Georgia State lawmakers won't create maps for this year's mid-terms.
The state maps would be used in 2028 for the next presidential election. I'm Core of a Coleman, NPR News.
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