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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is that people are basically spending more on services. this is why china, which is a manufacturing economy, is basically feeling the heat. and, by the way, earlier this week we had chinese export coming down 7%, you know, dropping year on year and that s very weak. it just tells you that actually around the world demand for tradeable goods and particularly in manufactured goods is very, very weak right now. that is hurting manufacturing economies like china, germany and south korea especially acutely. what will our cities and workplaces look like in the future? developers, architects and engineers are meeting in london for the ecocity world summit to answer this very question. issues varying from the cost and scale of new builds and refitting offices to issues of sustainability to the thornier issue of what role will working from home play in the future? what can we expect to see in our offices of the future? dan scanlon is the executive vice president of brookfield