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國際時事跟讀 Ep. L285: Trump-Xi Summit Heavy on Pomp, Light on Deals
Highlights 主題摘要
Trump hosted Xi at a lavish White House state dinner, but the summit produced few concrete breakthroughs.
Deep divisions over trade, technology and Taiwan limited the outcomes to a tariff cut and planned AI talks.
Taiwan appeared in neither official readout, while a $14 billion US arms package for the island remains on hold.
Washington rolled out the red carpet last week as President Donald Trump hosted Chinese leader Xi Jinping for his first state visit to the US in more than a decade. Trump greeted Xi at the airport, a rare gesture, and later held a lavish state dinner attended by tech chiefs including Nvidia's Jensen Huang and Apple's Tim Cook. There, Trump toasted a future of "harmony, peace and success", while Xi insisted that artificial intelligence must remain "under human control".
美國總統川普上週以最高規格接待中國國家主席習近平，這也是習近平10多年來首度對美國進行國是訪問。川普罕見親赴機場迎接，隨後在白宮設下盛大國宴，輝達執行長黃仁勳、蘋果執行長庫克等科技業領袖都在座。川普在席間舉杯，祝兩國未來「和諧、和平、成功」；習近平則強調，人工智慧必須處於「人類控制之下」。
Beneath the diplomatic niceties, however, old fault lines remained. Beijing wants Washington to stay out of its way on trade, technology and Taiwan, whereas Trump arrived hoping for deals on tariffs, rare earths and farm exports. Chinese state media reported that Xi had privately urged the US to handle Taiwan "with prudence". Tellingly, the two governments issued separate readouts rather than a joint statement, which Peter Alexander of Z-ben Advisors said showed both sides were "locked in a battle" over escalation dominance.
然而，外交客套話背後，雙方的老問題依舊存在。北京希望美方在貿易、科技和台灣議題上不要擋路；川普則想在關稅、稀土和農產品出口上談成協議。中國官媒報導，習近平私下要求美方「慎重」處理台灣問題。值得注意的是，兩國各自發布會談紀要，並未發表聯合聲明。Z-ben Advisors 的 Peter Alexander 認為，這顯示雙方正陷入角力，爭奪局勢升級時的主導權。
The deliverables that did emerge were modest. The two countries agreed to cut tariffs on $30 billion worth of each other's goods, and the US readout said China would buy at least 10 million metric tons of American coal a year in 2027 and 2028. They also plan to launch an AI dialogue within two months, although the US called the technology "Super Intelligence" while China stuck with "AI". The trade truce, meanwhile, was extended by just two months, far shorter than expected. Scott Kennedy of CSIS described the deliverables as "quite limited and tentative".
實際談成的成果相當有限。兩國同意對彼此價值300億美元的商品調降關稅；美方紀要指出，中國2027年和2028年每年將從美國進口至少1000萬公噸煤炭。雙方也計劃在兩個月內啟動人工智慧對話，不過美方稱這項技術為「超級智慧」，中方仍沿用「人工智慧」。貿易休戰則只延長兩個月，遠比外界預期短。美國智庫戰略暨國際研究中心（CSIS）的 Scott Kennedy 形容，這些成果「相當有限，也只是初步」。
Taiwan appeared in neither official readout, which Kennedy took as a sign of no progress. A $14 billion arms package for the island has been on hold since May, when Xi warned the two countries could "collide or even enter into conflict"; Trump called it a "very good negotiating chip". The leaders will meet twice more this year, at Apec in Shenzhen in November and the G20 in Miami in December. Whether this fragile detente lasts, analysts warn, depends on more tangible outcomes.
台灣議題沒有出現在任何一方的官方紀要中，Kennedy 認為這代表雙方在此毫無進展。一筆140億美元的對台軍售案自5月起遭到擱置；當時習近平警告，兩國可能「發生碰撞甚至衝突」，川普則稱這筆軍售是「非常好的談判籌碼」。兩人今年還會再見兩次面，分別是11月在深圳舉行的亞太經合會（APEC）峰會，以及12月在邁阿密登場的20國集團（G20）峰會。分析人士警告，雙方若拿不出更具體的成果，這種脆弱的緩和恐怕難以持久。

Keyword Drills 關鍵字
Roll out the red carpet [idiom, to give someone a special, grand welcome]: The hotel rolled out the red carpet for our clients.
Diplomatic niceties [noun phrase, polite formalities used to keep relations smooth]: Let's skip the diplomatic niceties and talk numbers.
Deliverables [noun, concrete results that a project or meeting must produce]: Please send me the project deliverables by Friday.
Stick with [verb phrase, to keep using something without changing it]: Let's stick with the original plan for now.
Negotiating chip [noun phrase, something used as leverage to gain an advantage in talks]: Our lower price became a useful negotiating chip.

Reference article:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cxq63dqp93n1o
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/28/trump-xi-summit-tangible-outcomes-us-china-truce.html
https://www.csis.org/analysis/takeaways-trump-xi-white-house-summit
https://www.cna.com.tw/news/aopl/202609260002.aspx
https://udn.com/news/story/125026/9778715

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英文學了八年、十年,文法考卷都能拿滿分,真的要開口卻卡住?問題可能不是你不夠努力,而是太努力了。🎧 「從聽到說的七封信」來到第四封,要聊的是為什麼我們一直推英文跟讀(shadowing),而不是別的方法。
台灣人學英文的毛病:太勤勞
聽起來很奇怪對吧?勤勞怎麼會是問題。
John老師說,我們從小相信勤勞才有回報,結果力氣全花在reading上。文法背得滾瓜爛熟,要講的時候腦袋卻先跳出「這句文法對嗎」,然後就卡住了。阿鍵老師補了一刀:我們太想找到正確答案,可是比起正確,更重要的是表達。
這種心態其實是從工作帶過來的。能加班就加班,最好短時間賺到最多,很社畜的邏輯。搬到學英文上,就變成「三個月變native speaker」,書店一整排90天速成、90天背完國高中單字。
反觀學中文的外國朋友,會很自在地說 I've been learning Chinese for eight years,然後可能才剛進入開口聊天的階段。因為他們把語言當興趣,想知道成吉思汗發生什麼事、想懂這個文化。我們呢?英文是加薪和考試的工具,學了八年沒加薪,就覺得自己是loser。
想練口說?那就開口
John老師搬出Elon Musk常講的first principle,第一原理。想練口說,答案單純到有點好笑:開口,不要再reading了。
跟讀就是這麼回事。聽到什麼就講出來,聽到CNN主播怎麼說,你就照著再說一遍,把自己套進主播的角色。不用等,沒有前置流程,開口的那一刻就已經在練習了。
John老師甚至說,願意這樣做的話,補習班和家教幾乎都可以省下來。
「可是我沒時間啊」
Don't lie。John老師直接點名:大家最近不是都在刷皮克敏嗎?
他說他老婆玩得很認真,種花、收割、整隊,光這些前置作業的時間就夠聽完一集、跟讀完兩個段落了。運動要暖身拉筋是怕受傷,但阿鍵老師說得好,你的耳朵跟舌頭應該沒那麼容易受傷,打開就能練。
所以台北捷運上滑手機的那幾站、早上刷牙的時間、晚上去河濱跑步的時候,都可以。竹科工程師開車塞在園區外面不方便看字,那就跟著聲音念幾句也行。
只有五分鐘,就練五分鐘,然後休息。通勤學英文本來就不需要坐在書桌前硬K一小時。
朗讀和跟讀,差在哪?
上一封信講朗讀,這一封講跟讀,為什麼要分先後?
朗讀是照你自己的tempo。內容還不熟,慢慢念、慢慢消化。跟讀就不一樣了,你要追上audio的速度,跟John老師同一個步調。這時候耳朵會被逼著聽細節:哪裡停頓、哪個字重、哪個字輕、語調怎麼走。
阿鍵老師說他自己練的時候,會不知不覺去辨識句子的結構。文法不是背下來的,是泡在裡面體會出來的。
想挑戰進階版?完全不預習,打開單集就直接跟。口譯社的人就是這樣每天燒腦練的。
前兩週會很累,這是正常的
老實說,一開始一定跟不上。嘴巴痠,腦袋燒得很快。John老師的回應是:Then it's working.
他拿重訓來比喻。第一次做兩個rep手就痠了,練一個禮拜可以做五個,再來十個、二十個。某天回頭看,才發現上個月還在苦苦追的速度,現在居然跟得上。想加難度,就像加重量一樣,從B2的內容拉到C1,或找語速更快的素材。
兩位老師的建議是先撐過前兩週的陣痛期,不要跟讀兩三天就說 I'm done。他們很樂意當健身房裡在旁邊吼 One more rep 的那個教練。
不過別忘了,學語言本來應該是快樂的。挑自己喜歡的主題,練英文會話順便聽新聞、吸收新知,一魚兩吃。

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Summary:
It’s a two-part article about Japan. First article discusses the low fertility rate in Japan is making the Japanese government allocating JPY2bn to boost birth rate. Human-run matchmaking services will now use AI to improve their clients’ chances of finding the right life partners that ultimately boost birth rate. Next article is about a shift in Japan government’s stance in its carbon policies. Japan is set to reduce 80% carbon footprint by 2050 and zero-emissions in the latter half of the century. It is the fifth-biggest emitter of carbon dioxide in the world.
原跟讀文章: https://www.15mins.today/blog/ep-k023-about-japan-japan-to-fund-ai-matchmaking-to-boost-birth
Vocabulary and Sample Sentences:
Subsidize v. to support financially Japan will subsidize local government running or stating projects that uses AI to matchmake people. In 2019, Taiwan government subsidized the purchase of a new Gogoro electric motorcycle.
Matchmaking n. the arranging of marriages or initiation of romantic relationships My grandparents were introduced by a matchmaking agency. Online matchmaking services are now booming in Asia.
Emission n. – production and discharge of gas or radiation Japan is going to reduce 80% of its carbon emissions by 2050. Imported cars in Taiwan are taxed by their emission level.

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你出國的時候，是不是也常在當地超市逛到忘記時間？反過來想，外國旅客來到台北，購物籃裡又會裝些什麼呢？本週的《英語咖啡館》John 老師和 Klim 老師要來聊聊觀光客來台灣必買的伴手禮。
我們天天看到、早就習以為常的零食和日用品，在觀光客眼中可能是非帶不可的寶物。這集兩位老師從西門町出發，聊到方便分送的小包裝零食、韓國旅客特別愛的甜鹹組合，還有幾樣連台灣人聽了都會意外的熱門商品。John 老師也分享了自己以前回台灣必買的懷舊組合，最後還有適合送給家中長輩的大人系伴手禮?!
When you travel abroad, don't you also often lose track of time browsing the local supermarket? Conversely, when foreign tourists come to Taipei, what ends up in their shopping baskets? This week on English Cafe, John and Klim discuss must-buy souvenirs for tourists visiting Taiwan.
The snacks and everyday items we see every day and have grown accustomed to might be treasures that tourists simply must bring home. In this episode, the two teachers start from Ximen district and discuss small-packaged snacks perfect for gifting, sweet-and-salty combinations that Korean tourists particularly love, and several popular products that even Taiwanese people find surprising. John also shares the nostalgic combinations he used to buy whenever returning to Taiwan, and finally, there are sophisticated souvenirs suitable for elderly family members?!