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

Coming up:

--Donald Trump 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 Coordinator 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.