Edward Wong(@ewong):NEW from @nytimes: Trump could ask Xi Jinping next week to broker a meeting with Kim Jong-un of North Korea, whom Trump has been courting over the summer. Xi doesn't want stronger US-North Korea ties, but might do Trump a favor for leverage. Kim isn't returning Trump's love yet.

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Diplomatic Correspondent @nytimes. Author of "At the Edge of Empire: A Family's Reckoning with China." Harvard Nieman Fellow. Taught at Princeton & UC Berkeley.

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Edward Wong@ewong

2026.09.18 19:22

NEW from @nytimes: Trump could ask Xi Jinping next week to broker a meeting with Kim Jong-un of North Korea, whom Trump has been courting over the summer. Xi doesn't want stronger US-North Korea ties, but might do Trump a favor for leverage. Kim isn't returning Trump's love yet.