looking to boost foreign investments as its own economic engine slows down. earlier eyes spoke to mattie of the ink comp word o connor s intelligence unit who described what economists are finding of not being in china for nearly three years. i being in china for nearly three ears. ~ being in china for nearly three ears. ~ ., ., years. i think one of the reasons years. i think one of the reasons this years. i think one of the reasons this meeting i years. i think one of the l reasons this meeting and years. i think one of the - reasons this meeting and kind of the streams of executives and world leaders we have seen returning to china in the last few months since the surprisingly abrupt exit of zero covid and china s opening there has been a perception gap thatis there has been a perception gap that is only widened in the three years china was closed. wattimena is the perception of china from outside, even those who have businesses here and have teams here, for whom c
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interest rates up again. tonight with the context long time capitol hill correspondent, and now washington post live anchor leigh ann caldwell, and tom peck, political sketch writer at the independent. welcome to the programme. initial results for its self styled referendums, in four areas it occupies in ukraine, show people have voted overwhelmingly in favour ofjoining the russian federation. the process has been denounced as a sham by ukraine and its allies, who view the referendums as a stage managed forerunner to russian annexation which the ministry of defence here in the uk says president putin is likely to do within days. nearly four million people from the eastern regions of donetsk and luhansk, and the southern regions of kherson and zaporizhzhia, were asked to attend polling stations there s been allegations of intimidation, as election officials went house to house accompanied by armed guards. the votes serve a deadly serious purpose as they will be used by the