of the city. france s president, emmanuel macron, signs into law his government s controversial pension reforms despite months of protests. scientists say the remains of ancient viruses which have spent millions of years hiding inside human dna help the body fight cancer. nurses in england will escalate their strike action in the coming weeks after turning down the government s latest pay offer. hello and welcome to talking business, with me, tadhg enright. let s have a look at what s on the show. can revenge spending save the world economy? after more than three years, lockdown is finally over for more than a billion people in china. they ve had time to stash trillions of dollars worth of savings. are they about to spend it travelling the world? and what s that going to mean for the rest of us? i ll be getting the lowdown on revenge spending with this top team steve odlan of the us conference board, tian lu from the economist intelligence unit in china, and gary barrowman
during the pandemic and - quite hard to the chinese market during the pandemic and since i quite hard to the chinese market. during the pandemic and since china reopened during the pandemic and since china reopened there during the pandemic and since china reopened. there are during the pandemic and since china reopened. there are actually - during the pandemic and since chinai reopened. there are actually showing they realty reopened. there are actually showing they really want reopened. there are actually showing they really want chinese reopened. there are actually showing they really want chinese travellers i they really want chinese travellers to come they really want chinese travellers to come back they really want chinese travellers to come back. but they really want chinese travellers to come back. but it they really want chinese travellers to come back. but it will they really want chinese travellers to come back. but it will come - they really want chinese
will be talking about revenge spending on how consumers have been making up for lost time by spending savings built up during the pandemic. in china over a billion consumers have come out of three years of on and off lockdowns. are you ready to spend a lot on cash and jewellery? pandora is one of the biggest brands in the sector in the world and its chief executive, alexander lacik, joins me now. alexander, you are about to relaunch your brand in china. what do you see as the potential there for pandora? pandora has been present in the market since 2010, had a kind of rebirth in 2015 which didn t go down that well, so we have been kind of waiting to relaunch the brand, and of course the last few years have been plagued by the restrictions