Llamas to Report on the Ground from Beijing During Trump-Xi Summit Across NBC News and NBC News NOW
Marks First ‘Nightly News’ Broadcast from China in Nearly 20 Years
May 6, 2026 – NBC News’ Tom Llamas will anchor special editions of NBC Nightly News with Tom Llamas (6:30 p.m. ET/5:30 p.m. CT) and Top Story with Tom Llamas (streaming 7 p.m. ET on NBC News NOW) live from China next week.
Llamas will report from Beijing as President Donald Trump meets with President Xi Jinping for a high-stakes summit between two global powers with economic and geopolitical implications. This will mark the first time Nightly News has been broadcast from China since the 2008 Olympic Games.
NBC Nightly News with Tom Llamas is regularly a top five program in all of TV each week and reaches about 25 million people every week through its broadcast and millions more through NBCNews.com, NBC News NOW, its podcast and social media platforms. Tom Llamas is the anchor and managing editor. Matt Frucci is the executive producer of Nightly News and Top Story. NBC News NOW is free and widely distributed across every popular online streaming platform, including Peacock, YouTube, Samsung TV Plus, the Roku Channel and via the NBC News app, as well as NBCNews.com and NBC News’ accounts on TikTok, Instagram, Facebook and X.
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Dominique Donahue
