00:00We're done with day one. We're going into day 0.5 today, of course, and it comes to this very
00:05important summit in Beijing.
00:06Let's have a look at the coverage of the summit across state media.
00:10Today, it's obviously dominating the front pages of many.
00:14Let's start off with the People's Daily, with the coverage highlighting the president's message
00:21and overcoming this great power rivalry and his warning on Taiwan.
00:25The paper also runs separate items on the leader's visit to the Temple of Heaven and also highlights, of course,
00:31from I'm sure many of you have seen many versions of it, some of the viral clips across the state
00:37banquet overnight.
00:39Some other headlines and commentary about the summit, too.
00:41Xinhua News highlighting what it calls a new vision for U.S.-China ties and Trump's comments calling Xi a great
00:48leader.
00:49Now, a Global Times editorial talks of a new positioning in relations where both countries move beyond a zero-sum
00:58game
00:58and work toward or together to address challenges.
01:01Right. China Daily, let's have a look at what's happening there.
01:04So it's calling for a, quote, new vision for a constructive relationship of strategic stability.
01:12OK, that's fairly long. That's a mouthful.
01:14But, yes, suffice to say, it's almost this broader reset of relations.
01:18And, of course, Yvonne, that invites overnight, September 24th, market calendars now, of course, that invite to the White House.
01:24Yeah, where President Xi potentially could end up in the U.S. side of things here and continue this exchange.
01:30Right. And despite some of the grand ceremony, despite this glowing coverage that we saw yesterday,
01:35we have been parsing through some of the summit readouts, both from the Beijing side of things and D.C.
01:40And you're seeing things that there are going to be similarities.
01:43There are going to be things where it looks a little bit more, I guess you could say, murky.
01:47Right. Taiwan, as you say, remains the most critical issue when it comes to China and U.S. relations.
01:52And as we talked about this readout that came out on Xinhua, while the two sides were still behind closed
01:58doors and negotiating,
02:00I think just goes to show China's position in all this and that, you know, Taiwan has become that key
02:05risk between the two nations here.
02:07If you take a look at the language that came through in that readout, right, if handled poorly, the two
02:11countries will clash and really pushing into some sort of conflict here
02:16and really talking about really put the two sides in a dangerous sort of territory.
02:23So Taiwan is most important, they say, according to Beijing, if not handled properly, will lead to clashes and conflicts.
02:29And the U.S. side is alarmingly interesting, too.
02:31There was no mention in their readout.
02:33There were also a lot of these, you know, gatherings that we saw of, you know, where reporters were asking
02:38questions or shouting questions to President Trump
02:40when he was at the with President Xi and, you know, asking about, you know, did you guys talk about
02:47Taiwan?
02:47Did you talk about Taiwan?
02:48And there was really notable silence from President Trump there.
02:52He didn't really want to go there and even answer the idea of whether this topic was even discussed there
02:58when they were at the Temple of Heaven.
02:59Now, take a look when it comes to when it comes to U.S.-China ties, meanwhile, here.
03:03The Beijing sort of rhetoric is to build constructive relationship of strategic stability.
03:08This is something that we've always always have heard in terms of the language from the Chinese side.
03:12No direct mention when it came to the U.S.
03:14And on the Iran war.
03:16Now, Beijing was a little bit more vague, saying, you know, views were exchanged when it came to, of course,
03:21the Middle East situation,
03:22what China's role is in trying to mitigate what's happening in the Strait of Hormuz.
03:26The U.S. said, you know, both sides still agree that Iran can never have a nuclear weapon.
03:31Trump also have said in interviews that that China did offer to help on Iran, that they were willing to
03:38support these negotiations.
03:40Whether that goes as far as as doing anything to reopen the Strait of Hormuz is another question, though, Dave.
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