{"podcast":{"title":"The Foreign Affairs Interview","slug":"the-foreign-affairs-interview-5444628","podcast_index_feed_id":5444628,"rss_url":"https://feed.podbean.com/foreignaffairsmagazine/feed.xml","website_url":"https://www.foreignaffairs.com/","image_url":"https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/13951093/FAI_Logo_2023.jpg","author":"Foreign Affairs Magazine","episode_count":100,"summary":"Foreign Affairs invites you to join its editor, Daniel Kurtz-Phelan, as he talks to influential thinkers and policymakers about the forces shaping the world. Whether the topic is the war in Ukraine, the United States’ competition with China, or the future of globalization, Foreign Affairs’ weekly podcast offers the kind of authoritative commentary and analysis that you can find in the magazine and on the website.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-foreign-affairs-interview-5444628"},"episode":{"title":"When Two Superpowers Meet: A Conversation With Nicholas Burns","slug":"when-two-superpowers-meet-a-conversation-with-nicholas-burns","published_at":"2026-05-11T10:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-foreign-affairs-interview-5444628/when-two-superpowers-meet-a-conversation-with-nicholas-burns","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-foreign-affairs-interview-5444628","url":"https://foreignaffairsmagazine.podbean.com/e/nick-burns-on-the-trump-xi-summit/","audio_url":"https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/r8mn6qj4fyx5ugic/260507_FAI_NICK-BURNS_MASTER.mp3","summary":"Not long ago, it was practically a truism to say that a hard line on China was the only real bipartisan position in American foreign policy. To the extent such a consensus ever existed, Donald Trump has upended it in his second term—leaving considerable uncertainty about just what he wants to achieve when he travels to China to meet with Xi Jinping this week, and what Xi hopes to achieve in return. To make sense of how the Chinese are approaching the summit and the options U.S. policymakers have at their disposal, Dan Kurtz-Phelan spoke to Nicholas Burns, a longtime American diplomat who served as ambassador to China until January of 2025. In this special bonus episode recorded on Thursday, May 7, Burns discusses the issues that will take center stage when Trump meets Xi—from trade and technology to Iran, Taiwan, and Ukraine—and the enormous stakes for U.S.-Chinese competition going forward. You can find sources, transcripts, and more episodes of The Foreign Affairs Interview at https://www.foreignaffairs.com/podcasts/foreign-affairs-interview.","meta_description":"Not long ago, it was practically a truism to say that a hard line on China was the only real bipartisan position in American foreign policy. To the extent…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3421,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-foreign-affairs-interview-5444628/episodes/when-two-superpowers-meet-a-conversation-with-nicholas-burns/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-foreign-affairs-interview-5444628/when-two-superpowers-meet-a-conversation-with-nicholas-burns.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}