Welcome back. The relationship between the United States and china has been severely tested during president biden s term in office. But since may last year, the Us National Security adviser Jake Sullivan has developed something of a connection with wang yi, the senior Foreign Policy official in beijing who answers directly to xi jinping. They met four times in the last year, a channel of communication that has served as something of a Shock Absorber when tensions arise over taiwan, ukraine, the south china sea. Today, sullivan arrived in beijing to continue that conversation, with some suggestion that the two president s might be laying the ground for another meeting Beforejoe Biden Leaves office. Its really interesting, this, annabel, because it seems Jake Sullivan is the back channel between washington and beijing right now, and to what and . Because theres been some Sabre Rattling in respect of ukraine and the special materials ageing is applying to russia will do you think it coul
For the Second Quarter. We can provide hints on whether the bank ofjapan will continue to remain an outlier and keep Interest Rates ultra low. Earlier, High Speed Two fidelity international s Catherine Yeung who said china is facing a confidence problem. It is lack of confidence within the consumption and corporate sector. In fact last friday we had julys money supply and aggregate Financial Data released and it was marginally weaker than expected, so tomorrow in fact we have this operations, and while the expectations are there will be no cuts on the benchmark generally speaking, you could see a slight increase of probability of ten basis points rent cuts, so again policy is going to outgrow chains, but it is going to be this continuing tweaking to accommodate. Tomorrow we will get some extra data out. But really what is the biggest problem facing china to get its economy up and running . If china to get its economy up and runnina . ,. , china to get its economy up and runninu . ,. ,
and finally, liverpool calling. another round of hopefuls will be battling it out for a place in the eurovision finals this weekend. in the eurovision finals this weekend- in the eurovision finals this weekend. ., ., , ., weekend. light from our studio in singapore- this is bbc news. it is newsday. welcome to the programme. we start in pakistan, where the former prime minister, imran khan, has been remanded in custody for 8 days after his arrest on corruption charges. his detention has sparked protests across the country. at least eight people have died in clashes and police say about a thousand people have been arrested. if convicted, it would disqualify mr khan from standing for election, which is due this year. our pakistan correspondent, caroline davies, has more from islamabad. waiting, watched by pakistan. this compound is where imran khan is due to appear. a night of unrest. calm now, but for how long? roadblocks installed around the entrances, hoping to stop the pr
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