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World Service,11 Aug 2020,53 mins

Fresh sanctions in US-China tension

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China puts sanctions on US senators in response to new American sanctions on Hong Kong officials. It's the latest development in the ongoing tension between the two economic superpowers. We get analysis from sanctions expert Julia Friedlander. Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy Lai is arrested under its new controversial national security law. We discuss what this means for press freedom in the city. And we hear why Indian rapper Badshah is wanted by police after his latest song Paagal was downloaded a record-breaking 75 million times in the first 24 hours after its release. Rahul Tandon is joined throughout the programme by Peter Morici, economist at the University of Maryland in Washington DC and by Bloomberg Opinion columnist Nisha Gopalan in Hong Kong. (Picture:The Chinese and American flags. Credit: Getty Images)

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