{"podcast":{"title":"Sources & Methods","slug":"sources-methods-7462369","podcast_index_feed_id":7462369,"rss_url":"https://feeds.npr.org/g-s1-84651/podcast.xml","website_url":"https://www.npr.org/podcasts/g-s1-84651/sources-and-methods","image_url":"https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims3/default/strip/false/crop/3000x3000+0+0/resize/1400/quality/66/format/jpg/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F65%2F8e%2F6bf282514dd1b3271f8363797274%2Fsources-and-methods-tile-art-3000x3000px.jpg","author":"NPR (Podcasts@npr.org)","episode_count":6,"summary":"National security, unlocked. Each Thursday, host Mary Louise Kelly and a team of NPR correspondents discuss the biggest national security news of the week. With decades of reporting from battlefields and the halls of power, they bring you inside the Pentagon, State Department, and intelligence community to help you understand America's shifting role in the world, and how events in faraway places matter here at home. Additional episodes feature interviews with power players from the NatSec world -- current and former military officials, intelligence experts, diplomatic leaders, and more. Email the show at sourcesandmethods@npr.org . NPR+ supporters hear every episode sponsor-free and can access our complete archive. Learn more and support public media at plus.npr.org .","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/sources-methods-7462369"},"episode":{"title":"Beijing Summit / Trump and Xi as allies, rivals and frenemies","slug":"beijing-summit-trump-and-xi-as-allies-rivals-and-frenemies","published_at":"2026-05-14T21:26:03+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/sources-methods-7462369/beijing-summit-trump-and-xi-as-allies-rivals-and-frenemies","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/sources-methods-7462369","url":"https://www.npr.org/2026/05/14/nx-s1-5821069/beijing-summit-trump-and-xi-as-allies-rivals-and-frenemies","audio_url":"https://prfx.byspotify.com/e/play.podtrac.com/npr-g-s1-84651/npr.simplecastaudio.com/90a3b070-6fb5-4e5e-a441-5393331d5b53/episodes/9201116f-19d2-4f00-9b52-537fe3bf5731/audio/128/default.mp3?awCollectionId=90a3b070-6fb5-4e5e-a441-5393331d5b53&awEpisodeId=9201116f-19d2-4f00-9b52-537fe3bf5731&feed=v1IfWHro&t=podcast&e=nx-s1-5821069&p=g-s1-84651&d=1858&size=29731198","summary":"President Trump visits Chinese leader Xi Jinping for the first time since 2017. What’s changed? And what does each man want from this meeting? Host Mary Louise Kelly speaks with NPR White House Correspondent Franco Ordoñez and NPR China Correspondent Jennifer Pak about Trump's big summit with Chinese leaders in Beijing and how the U.S.-China relationship has evolved since their last meeting. Email the show at sourcesandmethods@npr.org NPR+ supporters hear every episode without sponsor messages and unlock access to our complete archive. Sign up at plus.npr.org . See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for sponsorship and to manage your podcast sponsorship preferences. NPR Privacy Policy","meta_description":"President Trump visits Chinese leader Xi Jinping for the first time since 2017. What’s changed? And what does each man want from this meeting? Host Mary L…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1858,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/sources-methods-7462369/episodes/beijing-summit-trump-and-xi-as-allies-rivals-and-frenemies/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/sources-methods-7462369/beijing-summit-trump-and-xi-as-allies-rivals-and-frenemies.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}