The Summit Is the Message | Trump, Xi, and What the Summit Actually Delivered

When Washington needs to make sense of Beijing, it calls Bonnie Glaser. She is Managing Director of the Indo-Pacific Program at the German Marshall Fund, and she has spent decades tracking how China makes decisions under pressure.

She joins Washington Bureau Chief Joe Kawly fresh off the Trump-Xi summit to deliver the read that official Washington will not: Xi Jinping got more than Trump, Taiwan is being used as a negotiating chip, and Chinese companies are supplying satellite imagery that is being used to target U.S. military assets in the Middle East.

Her words, not anyone else's: China is complicit in killing Americans.

What is The Diplomat | ديبلومات?

In the rooms where war, peace, and power are decided, words matter most. The Diplomat brings you raw conversations with ambassadors, envoys, and negotiators who shaped the hardest decisions in U.S. foreign policy and Middle East diplomacy. Hosted by Joe Kawly. Recorded from Washington. Produced by Middle East Broadcasting Networks (MBN).

Joe Kawly brings extensive experience from conflict zones in the Middle East to the power corridors of Washington. As a journalist, he’s seen how words can escalate a crisis or open the door to peace. A Georgetown graduate and former CNN Journalism Fellow, he’s known for connecting the dots others miss, so people don’t just hear what happened, they understand why it matters. As producer and host of The Diplomat, Joe brings clarity to diplomacy and politics, one conversation at a time.