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Marketplace All-in-One

Blinken’s thorny China trip

Marketplace All-in-One

Marketplace

News, Business

4.51.4K Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2024

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

From the BBC World Service: U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has arrived in China with a long list of global issues on his agenda: There’s conflict in the Middle East, America’s support for Taiwan and the way China supplies crucial technology to Russia’s war effort in Ukraine. Also: key issues for women voting in India’s general election and southern Spain’s struggle with the highest unemployment rate in Europe.

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The US Secretary of State has landed in Shanghai amid simmering tensions between the world's two largest economies.

0:07.0

Live from the BBC World Service, this is the Marketplace Morning Report.

0:11.0

I'm Wilbane. Thanks for being with us.

0:12.0

Yes, Anthony Blinking arrives less

0:14.0

than 24 hours since the Senate confirmed that controversial bill on foreign military spending aid.

0:19.9

Here's the BBC's China correspondent, Laura Bicker, on what's likely to dominate the talks.

0:24.0

Top of the agenda certainly for both sides will be Ukraine, Middle East and Taiwan.

0:30.6

Now let's deal with the Taiwan bill that has gone through Congress.

0:34.2

There has been reaction here in Beijing.

0:36.6

They strongly oppose the United States aid package and they say that this will encourage separatists on the island.

0:46.0

Now China believes that the self-governing island is part of the mainland.

0:49.4

It is one of China's red lines that they believe America should not cross.

0:54.4

The BBC's Laura Bicker reporting there.

0:56.5

Well that bill of course wasn't just about military aid,

0:59.2

it also cleared the road for a potential ban on TikTok in the United States unless the

1:03.8

apse Chinese owner bite dance sells up. The BBC's Asia business reporter

1:08.2

Surin Janitorwari has more.

1:10.3

TikTok has said it would challenge the law in the US courts and so is expected to

1:15.7

file to sue to stop it through an injunction. Now there is some precedent for this.

1:21.5

Tic-Toc faced a similar ban in Montana which was some president

1:25.0

Tic-Toc faced a similar ban in Montana, which was struck down when Tic-Toc sued.

1:27.0

And former president Trump also tried to ban both Tic-Toc and Chinese-owned Wi-Chad, but that was blocked by the courts.

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