{"id":74962,"date":"2025-10-30T14:13:47","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T05:13:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2025\/oct\/30\/donald-trump-xi-jinping-meeting-live-updates"},"modified":"2025-10-31T00:20:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T15:20:10","slug":"donald-trump-speaks-after-xi-jinping-meeting-in-south-korea-live-updates-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=74962","title":{"rendered":"Senate postpones confirmation hearing for Trump surgeon general pick after Casey Means goes into labor \u2013 US politics live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Means, a wellness influencer, was due to appear before the health, education, labor and pensions committee<\/p>\n<p>In the days leading up to the Trump-Xi meeting, American officials signalled that the US president did not intend to make good on a recent threat to impose an additional 100% import tax on Chinese goods.<\/p>\n<p>Also that China had shown signs it is willing to relax its export controls on rare earths as well as revive buying soybeans from the US.<\/p>\n<p>The relationship with China is very good.<\/p>\n<p>Because of the tremendous destructive power, I HATED to do it, but had no choice! Russia is second, and China is a distant third, but will be even within 5 years.<\/p>\n<p>Because of other countries testing programs, I have instructed the Department of War to start testing our Nuclear Weapons on an equal basis. That process will begin immediately.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2025\/oct\/30\/donald-trump-xi-jinping-meeting-live-updates\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Means, a wellness influencer, was due to appear before the health, education, labor and pensions committeeIn the days leading up to the Trump-Xi meeting, American officials signalled that the US president did not intend to make good on a recent threat &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3946,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1192,41,6,50,3426,415,222,3280,554,47,631,42,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apec-summit","category-asia-pacific","category-business","category-china","category-critical-minerals","category-donald-trump","category-south-korea","category-tariffs","category-trump-administration","category-us-news","category-us-politics","category-world-news","category-xi-jinping"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3946"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74962"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74984,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74962\/revisions\/74984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}