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World Service,14 Nov 2022,26 mins

A historic meeting between the US and China

World Business Report

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As Joe Biden holds his first face-to-face meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping since he became president, we speak to George Magnus, Associate at the China Centre at Oxford University, about how the countries economies are faring. We hear from the BBC’s business correspondent Archana Shukla in Colombo after Sri Lanka’s new Government set out it’s budget plans for the country. Former Finance Minister for the country Eran Wickramaratne gave us his reaction. Molly Jane Zuckerman, content czar at CoinMarketCap, tells about calls for more regulation in the Cryptocurrency market, in the wake of the collapse of the crypto currency exchange FTX. With Mozambique exporting it’s first liquefied natural gas we speak to Claudio Descalzi, the Chief Executive of Eni the company mining the gas. (Photo: US President Joe Biden shakes hands with Chinese President Xi Jinping as they meet on the sidelines of the G20 leaders' summit in Bali, Indonesia, 14 November, 2022. Credit: Kevin Lamarque/Reuters)

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