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And check out our new daily news show covering all of the top stories in 5 minutes, downloadable on Apple Pod or Spotify. GM! Today’s top news: – Crypto majors are red after hot CPI; BTC -1.5% at $79.3k – BTC ETFs see $630M in net outflows, most since January – Schwab officially began rollout of spot crypto trading – Claude helps user find $400k in BTC lost for 11 years – Myriad adopts Chainlink as it moves deeper into real-time markets 🇨🇳 What’s At Stake with Trump in Beijing Trump landed in Beijing on Wednesday for his first visit to China since 2017, a two-day summit with Xi Jinping that carries more weight than any U.S.-China meeting in nearly a decade.
The agenda covers five interconnected crises simultaneously: – the Iran war and Hormuz blockade, – the trade relationship and tariff truce, – Taiwan, – rare earth export controls, and – AI governance. Any one of those issues could move global markets on its own. Stacked in the same two-day window, the Beijing summit is the most consequential diplomatic event of the year.