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China offers Trump grand welcome, but issues warning on Taiwan
Chinese leader Xi Jinping hosted President Trump and offered the U.S. a "new vision" of relations more focused on trade and collaboration than on confrontation. Trump in turn, offered a future in which he and Xi were "united and together." But China's president also had a stark warning to his American counterpart about Taiwan. Nick Schifrin reports from Beijing.

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According to PBS News’s source item, China offers Trump grand welcome, but issues warning on Taiwan, Chinese leader Xi Jinping hosted President Trump and offered the U.S. a “new vision” of relations more focused on trade and collaboration than on confrontation. Trump in turn, offered a future in which he and Xi were “united and together.” But China’s president also had a stark warning to his American counterpart about Taiwan. Nick Schifrin reports from Beijing.
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