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Donald Trump and President Xi as the US president is making his first visit to China in a decade. There is a fragile rapprochement after the two countries came close to a full-blown trade war last year, and now the United States may be looking to China to end its war in Iran. As usual, Donald Trump brought in tech executives including NVIDIA’s Jenson Huang, Apple’s Tim Cook, Tesla’s Elon Musk and SpaceX, BlackRock’s Larry Fink, and other tech executives from Meta, Visa, JP, Boeing, Morgan Stanley, and others, hoping that his positive personal relationship with Chinese President Xi Jinping will help broker several business deals. But hanging over the entire trip is the tenuous ceasefire in Iran, which Trump says is on “massive life support.” China is a key ally of Iran and may be more capable of facilitating a peace deal, but what does Beijing want from any peace deal, and could the US president turn down the chance to end a war that is so unpopular with Americans back home? Back in Washington, D.C., FBI Director Kash Patel faced more questions about reports of an overdose, while he was at a congressional hearing on the FBI’s budget. Patel continues to deny the allegations and has sued The Atlantic for defamation over the report. Why can’t he destroy the claims and promote Donald Trump? Hosts: • Sarah Smith, North America Editor • Anthony Zurcher, North America Correspondent Contact: • Join our online community: https://discord.gg/qSrxqNcmRB • Send us a message or voice note on WhatsApp to +44 330 123 9480 • Email Americast@bbc.co.uk This episode was produced by Tom Americast Dowsett. The technical producer was Philip Bull. The serial producer is Purvi Patni. The news editor is Sam Bonham. If you would like to be notified every time we publish a new episode, please subscribe to BBC Sounds by tapping the subscribe button on the app. Now you can listen to Americast on your smart speaker. If you want to listen, say “BBC Sounds to play Americast”. Works on most modern speakers. US Election Unsolved: Subscribe to Anthony’s BBC Newsletter: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-68093155 Americast is part of the BBC News Podcasts family of podcasts. The team that makes Americast also makes several other podcasts, including Newscast. If you enjoy Americast (and if you’re reading this, you do), then we think you’ll enjoy some of our pods. Check out the link below. News: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/series/p05299nl Radical: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/p0gg4k6r Global Story: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/w13xtvsd
