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.

1 trump   

n.王牌，法宝；v.打出王牌，吹喇叭

参考例句：

• He was never able to trump up the courage to have a showdown.他始终鼓不起勇气摊牌。
• The coach saved his star player for a trump card.教练保留他的明星选手，作为他的王牌。

2 coordinator   

n.协调人

参考例句：

• The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, headed by the Emergency Relief Coordinator, coordinates all UN emergency relief. 联合国人道主义事务协调厅在紧急救济协调员领导下，负责协调联合国的所有紧急救济工作。
• How am I supposed to find the client-relations coordinator? 我怎么才能找到客户关系协调员的办公室？