{"podcast":{"title":"The Duran on Odysee","slug":"the-duran-on-odysee-5399169","podcast_index_feed_id":5399169,"rss_url":"https://odysee.com/$/rss/@theduran:e","website_url":"https://theduran.com","image_url":"https://thumbnails.lbry.com/UCdeMVChrumySxV9N1w0Au-w","author":"The Duran","episode_count":50,"summary":"#TheDuran DAILY NEWS: http://theduran.com *****LOCALS COMMUNITY***** https://theduran.locals.com 1 MONTH FREE TRIAL: https://theduran.locals.com/support/promo/DURANLOCALS *****THE DURAN SHOP***** http://drnshop.com 10% OFF COUPON. Use code at checkout​​​​: REALNEWS *****OUR OFFICIAL CHANNELS***** ALEXANDER: https://www.youtube.com/AlexanderMercourisReal ALEX: https://www.youtube.com/alexchristoforou *****CRYPTO SUPPORT***** BITCOIN: 3JvdnoyWMb93hSRgk58ZstUxg11PW9mKSr ETHEREUM: 0xF39BdFb41f639B82E3D2Bf022828bC6394F533A3 LTC: MGFiMC18ZViF6DcCixMqAAP11TG4tF6Acj ADA: addr1v94ayqu53uklgqnn6c4x4weu8zk4uw78km8capd5rjdc06q28j370 HEX: 0xD449694348B1D618ECa2829Bbc901782F5172689 EMC2: EXX4KK9pZLx7uiLWnCXtp7iMKjtq6o5b6R *****DONATE***** CREDIT CARD: https://donorbox.org/the-duran PAYPAL: https://paypal.me/theduran/10 SUBSCRIBE STAR: https://subscribestar.com/theduran PATREON: https://patreon.com/theduran *****VIDEO PLATFORMS***** SUPER U: https://bit.ly/3hg1B3R RUMBLE THE DURAN: https://rumble.com/c/theduran ODYSEE: THE DURAN: https://odysee.com/@theduran ALEXANDER: https://odysee.com/@AlexanderMercouris:a ALEX: https://odysee.com/@alexchristoforou:7 BITCHUTE: THE DURAN: https://www.bitchute.…","last_synced_at":"2026-07-19T08:19:32.116356+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-duran-on-odysee-5399169"},"episode":{"title":"Xi-Trump Summit, Big Foreign Policy Questions Left Unanswered","slug":"xi-trump-summit-big-foreign-policy-questions-left-unanswered","published_at":"2026-05-14T15:20:14+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-duran-on-odysee-5399169/xi-trump-summit-big-foreign-policy-questions-left-unanswered","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-duran-on-odysee-5399169","url":"https://odysee.com/xi-trump-summit%2C-big-foreign-policy:393f7bc57aac4344294f18b21a6bd38b43e27cf3","audio_url":"https://player.odycdn.com/api/v3/streams/free/xi-trump-summit,-big-foreign-policy/393f7bc57aac4344294f18b21a6bd38b43e27cf3/079c69.mp4","summary":"The Duran: Episode 2519 Donald Trump's two-day visit to Beijing was billed as a major US-China summit but Alexander Mercouris of The Duran argues it was something far more modest: a business trip with diplomatic window dressing. With no substantive preparation by senior officials, no deep negotiations on Iran, Taiwan, or trade policy, and a delegation stacked almost entirely with CEOs, the real meetings were happening between Elon Musk, Nvidia, and their Chinese counterparts not between Trump and Xi Jinping. Mercouris draws a sharp contrast with Nixon and Kissinger's 1972 approach, which involved months of groundwork before the leaders ever met, and raises a troubling question: has the United States become not just agreement-incapable, but negotiations-incapable? Meanwhile, Putin's imminent visit to China promises a very different dynamic one built on continuous dialogue and genuine strategic depth. Is American foreign policy now little more than deal-making while the real geopolitical game moves on without it? 00:00:00 Introduction: Trump-Xi summit overview 00:01:22 Ceremony over substance: what the meeting revealed 00:02:33 Why real summits require months of preparation 00:03:38 The Anchorage comparison: a pattern of unpreparedness 00:04:50 The Tajikistan signal: China not fully focused 00:06:14 Red lines exchanged: Iran, Taiwan, rare earths 00:07:32 The Nixon-Kissinger model: what real diplomacy looks like 00:09:47 Where do we go from here? 00:10:10 The real meeting: Musk, Nvidia, and the business deals 00:13:13 Putin's upcoming China visit: a different dynamic 00:15:25 America's diplomacy problem: negotiations incapable? 00:17:59 The energy blockade strategy explained 00:20:09 Why China already knows everything the US is doing 00:21:12 The…","meta_description":"The Duran: Episode 2519 Donald Trump's two-day visit to Beijing was billed as a major US-China summit but Alexander Mercouris of The Duran argues it…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1448,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-duran-on-odysee-5399169/episodes/xi-trump-summit-big-foreign-policy-questions-left-unanswered/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-duran-on-odysee-5399169/xi-trump-summit-big-foreign-policy-questions-left-unanswered.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}