新闻纵贯线 Today updated 20:00 2017/05/22

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Welcome to 'Today' - an hour of world news and analysis -- from a different perspective. I'm Jingnan.

Coming up:

--Donald Trump¹ visits the middle east in his first trip abroad as the US president

--The Philippine President aims for closer ties with China and Russia

--and the Kuomingtang Party in Taiwan has elected a new leader

For more on this, CRI's Jingnan is now joined by the line with Stephen Zunes, Professor of Politics and Coordinator² of Middle Eastern Studies at the University of San Francisco;Li Guofu, Senior Research Fellow with China Institute of International Studies; Kuangyu Liu, Institute of Taiwan Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Science.