Hello and welcome to NewsHour.
It's coming to you live from the BBC World Service Studios in central London.
I'm Tim Franks.
And we're going to begin the programme at an airport in South Korea, the place that two of the most,
perhaps the two most powerful men in the world met for the first time in six years,
Donald Trump and Xi Jinping.
And as for how that meeting went,
given all the tensions and tough language and talk of trade wars, well...
When heads of state and government talk to each other,
you tend to get what's known in the trade as readout.
It's normally some fairly dry, cautious language worked up by a group of dry and cautious officials.
That's not Donald Trump's way.
On social media, he called the 90-minute conversation truly great.
Abored Air Force One, he went even more stratospheric.
If you rank a meeting from zero to ten, he told reporters, with ten being the best, well...
This was a 12.
I thought it was an amazing meeting.
He's a great leader, a leader of a very powerful, very strong country, China.
There was an outstanding group of decisions, I think, that was made.
A lot of decisions were made, too.