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hearing, has held what the us calls candid and constructive talks with china s foreign minister in beijing. this at the start of two days of meetings with chinese officials. mr blinken emphasised the need for diplomacy and keeping open channels of communication us officials added. the trip to china is the first by a top us diplomat in almost five years and comes months after an earlier visit by the secretary of state was postponed when a suspected chinese spy balloon flew in us airspace. can this trip reboot relations? to discuss this and what s at stake for the world s two biggest economies, i m joined by alicia garcia herrero chief economist at natixis. good to have you on the programme. from your perspective, when we are looking at trade, the two biggest economies in the world, how important is this trip? extremely important. and the main reason for this trip is not even trade, it s about assurance to really avoid a military conflict in taiwan and i think tha ....
He wrote thats despite us claims that china is providing vital war material to russia. President macron is expected to warn president xi against backing russia in the conflict. Lets speak to jonathan cheng, the china bureau chief for the wall streetjournal. Thank you forjoining us today, jonathan. Lets talk about the wider diplomacy first. President xi has been on somewhat of a diplomatic blitz recently, although usually receiving visitors rather than going abroad. How significant do you think this troop is . I how significant do you think this troop is . This troop is . I think its re this troop is . I think its pretty important this troop is . I think its l pretty important because, this troop is . I think its pretty important because, as you point out, he rarely leaves china these days and certainly during covid he didnt and this is one of his few trips outside and i think its significant because i think in beijing, they still see europe as potentially winnable, if you want to call ....
As a model of peaceful co existence. What does he want from the visit . Good morning and thank you for the invite. The Chinese Administration has a twofold agenda. Normalising the relationship with europe. Europe has lodged a sequence of blow with china and some practices of trade. And on the political side, with the ukraine and russia block and the European Countries are, lets say, quite upset by the fact that now some companies in china are supporting. , Russian Companies are supporting the russian war effort and this is clearly a problem. The second thing is clearly the huge and massive Trade Imbalance between europe and china which is something that the french president as pointed out as something that needs to be dealt with in the short term. � ....
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