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 xi s 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 china s ‘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
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Yes, some have said that they think he has really failed in this regard. i don t know if i share that, really, because i think we just don t know at the moment whether xi jinping has really digested the message from emmanuel macron. of course, he knew that it was coming. emmanuel macron said that long before he even left for beijing, this is what he wanted to push for. i think it really comes down to whether we are going to see a phone call between xijinping whether we are going to see a phone call between xi jinping and volodymyr zelensky, the leader of ukraine. we thought that this phone call was going to happen shortly after xijinping went to call was going to happen shortly after xi jinping went to russia to meet with vladimir putin. it was rumoured he was going to make a phone call to mr zelensky, which would be his first phone call since the russian invasion of ukraine. that call has not been made yet, so i think that will be tangible proof as to whether xijinping i think that wi
Is exactly the opposite. the more locked into fossil feels is exactly the opposite. the more locked into fossil feels we - is exactly the opposite. the more locked into fossil feels we are - locked into fossil feels we are adding more reliant we are on a source of energy which can only do us harm, notjust through climate breakdown, which is the biggest source of insecurity of all, but also because any local resources we develop are not going to affect the oil price at all, but if that development is part of the agenda of keeping us hooked on fossilfuels, then we remain dependent on some very unpleasant regimes elsewhere in the world, notjust russia, but some of the really nasty autocracies in the middle east. if we want genuine energy independence, that means switching the mode of our suppliers well, and using our abundant resources of renewable energy which we have loads of, and which liz truss seems completely uninterested in optimising. i truss seems completely uninterested in opt
Part of its wider environmental and anti environmental agenda, it is ripping down 570 environmental rules in its relocation bill, jacob rees mogg, the energy secretary, has said he wants to extract every cubic inch of gas from the north sea, liz truss has removed a ban on fracking. altogether, it looks like an absolute environmental disaster area, this government and this pretty well tops it off. i5 area, this government and this pretty well tops it off.- area, this government and this pretty well tops it off. is there an arc ument pretty well tops it off. is there an argument to pretty well tops it off. is there an argument to be pretty well tops it off. is there an argument to be made pretty well tops it off. is there an argument to be made perhaps i pretty well tops it off. is there an l argument to be made perhaps that some of those measures that you have outlined are necessary in order to secure the uk energy security, reduce reliance on imports from russia and elsewhere,