Hello and welcome to Business Live. Chinese president xijinping is in russia for talks with his counterpart Vladimir Putin today. Trade is set to be top of the agenda ahead of the 620 meeting of Global Leaders later this month. The visit will be xis sixth tour to russia since taking office in 2012. And their meetings seem to be bearing fruit according to china, trade between the two increased by over 26 in the first four months of the year, reaching nearly 25 billion. Cooperation is increasing too. Russia will be a key component of chinas belt and Road Initiative an ambitious multi trillion Dollar Project that will link europe and asia via the historic silk road. As part of the project and as a symbol of this close relationship beijing has even agreed to help finance a High Speed Rail Link within russia itself Linking Moscow to the city of kazan. Joining me now is dr yujie, head of china foresight, at lse ideas. Thank you for coming in to doctor us. Thank you for coming in to doctor us
defense if austin is out of intense intensive care but still in the hospital. your thoughts on that and the lack of communication to other senior officials including the president until days later. yeah. i mean, i worked at the national security council in the trump administration. this is shocking. you know, of course, you know, wish the secretary a speedy recovery mike: sure. but, to me, it s clear that he cannot come back in that position. he made a colossal mistake here. more and more that comes out, i think he either has to resign or the president has to really ask for his less ig e nation and then move resignation and then move forward. i m also concerned that the white house didn t know or didn t ask where senior leadership in the pentagon was for an entire week. that has implications for civilian leadership of the military, and i hope those questions will be asked by congress in the coming days on both sides, republicans and democrats, because that s a significant quest
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