# VOA Focus: White House report highlights intensifying US-China tech rivalry; Trump to meet Kim Jong Un

https://mins.news/en/video/26700

- VOA Chinese, 2026-08-19 22:10 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKhHUHb0eII

> The August 20 edition of VOA Focus covers the US and South Korea announcing an early end to their joint exercises, while President Trump says he will meet Kim Jong Un. It also reports calls from US lawmakers to reverse the decision, a new White House national security science and technology strategy, the imminent arrival of the first US F-16V Block 70 jets in Taiwan, and questions whether technology used by China’s star robot dog came from the US military.

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