Theres lots more on all our stories on our website. Just log onto bbc. Co. Uk news. Now on bbc news, live to singapore for Asia Business report. Dampened expect patients. The us and china sit down later today for a 13th round of trade talks. Both sides may walk away empty handed. Union walkers of the United States entered their fourth week on the picket line with no resolution in sight. Union workers. Good morning, asia. Hello, world. This is thursday, thank you for joining us for another exciting addition of Asia Business report. Lets start with the ongoing us china trade war because the 13th round of talks is set to resume in washington, dc today. This is the first meeting between top negotiators on us soil since the trade talks collapsed in may. But there is little hope they will be productive. News reports are saying that the two day meeting may be cut short due to unresolved issues on key Sticking Points. As you can see right now on our motherboard screens, right now on our mother
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Its about an hour 50 minutes. All right. So woere going to go ahead and get started. Thanks for joining us despite the rain. I know its difficult for many of you. For those of you who are not familiar with usip, were a nonpartisan independent institute that is dedicated to proposition that peace is possible. Were funded by congress and focused on preventing, mitigating, or resolving conflict. One of the global hotspots that has eluded peace for many years is the korean peninsula, and as you know, recently, President Trump and chairman kim met at the border between north and south korea, which has rekindled the prospects for returning back to negotiations and breaking the current diplomatic stalemate. And, in fact, the two leaders agreed to resume workinglevel negotiations in the coming weeks and try to make progress on denuclearization and peace. One of the sticking points has been north korea asking for sanctions relief. In order for the kim regime to survive and thrive, it needs to g
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Get started. Thank you for joining us despite the rain. I know it was difficult for many of you. Welcome to u. S. Ip usip. Are not familiar, we are a nonpartisan, independent institute dedicated to the proposition that peace is possible. We are funded by congress and we are focused on preventing, mitigating and resolving conflict. Thatf the global hotspots has eluded peace for many years is the korean peninsula. Canident trump and chairman met at the border with south korea, which has weakened the prospect of returning to measure returning to negotiations. In the coming weeks, they will try to make progress on denuclearization and peace. One of the sticking points has been north korea asking for sanctions relief. In order for the kim regime to survive and thrive, it needs to generate hard currency, and develop its economy, and sanctions have impeded these goals. The Trump Administration has stated consistently that it will not provide sanctions relief until north korea denuclearize den