with president biden at the white house on thursday. it promises cooperation on advanced tech, clean energy and critical minerals. but it falls far short of the comprehensive free trade agreement with the us that the british government has been hoping for and had promised as a benefit of leaving the european union. our north america business correspondent michelle fleury has hopes of a full free trade deal were dashed sometime ago because it was clear that biden had been interested in that. there were noises for some time that we might get something more about an alliance against external threats to economic security and furthering ambitions on net zero. while this might seem like a pick and mix trade alliance, little bits here when it comes to talking about protecting supply chains, a little bit about making it easier to swap data between us and american firms and a little bit here about green energy and nuclear, it is very much tied together in looking at what of those co
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morning after officials there is a nearly 50 chinese planes entered taiwan s air defense zone and an aggressive move. today s publication followed a show of force differently from the communist regime when at least 11 chinese missiles landed waters to the north, south and east of taiwan. secretary of state anthony blinken calling the exercises a significant escalation and a furious china has suspended the lead with the united states on issues ranging from climate change that military relations. all this after nancy pelosi s trip to taiwan which china calls an egregious provocation. president biden s response to growing crisis is raising questions. reporter: when russia was getting aggressive, the president without telling putin don t do it and now john is getting aggressive around taiwan and we are not hearing anything like that from the president. i beg to differ. we have been talking about our concerns about what china was preparing to do. i stood at another podium out