Taiwan arms sales, Board of Trade, and Chinamaxxing

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  NPR.

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  Arms sales to Taiwan, a new board of trade.

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  These were discussed when President Trump met with Chinese President Xi Jinping last week.

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  This wasn't an earth-shattering summit, though.

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  The buzzword from Xi Jinping was stability.

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  That said, coinciding with the talks, we did see a handful of Chinese companies approved by the U.S.

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  To buy some of NVIDIA's high-tech chips.

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  That's according to Reuters.

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  There were also suggestions that China would now buy billions worth of U.S.

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  Agricultural goods.

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  There was a lot of anticipation ahead of this meeting.

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  Trump was flanked by an entourage of American business leaders, including Elon Musk and Apple's Tim Cook.

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  And you know, all this got me thinking about one word, Chinamaxing.

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  This is The Indicator for Planet Money.

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  I'm Adrian Ma, here with Waylon Wong and Darian Woods.

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  Today on the show are three takeaways from the Trump-Xi meeting.

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  We'll cover why Taiwan was such a high priority for President Xi,

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  learn about the Board of Trade,

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  and mine the depths of TikTok to explain what Chinamaxing's all about.

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  New shows, new music, new movies, keeping up with pop culture sometimes feels like a full-time job.

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