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Scala Report with Chris Regal, the CEO of Scala.com, a global technology firm with business on all. the because Shijinping, the general secretary and president of the People's Republic of China,

is on a European tour.

Why?

Because direct foreign investment has declined remarkably over these last years.

At the same time, the property bubble has burst and consumer demand is not what it needs to be to offset the property bubble collapse and the foreign

investment.

Chris, a very good evening to you.

The headline in the Financial Times.

China's trade returns to growth on back of AI equipment imports.

What does that mean?

Imports doesn't mean they're manufacturing it, and AI is associated with high-end chips that they're

forbidden or blocked from acquiring. So how to interpret this idea of growth with

AI equipment imports? Good evening to you.

Good evening, John. I would interpret that as straight propaganda with the Chinese trying

to latch on to the greater financial press around AI.

China is in desperate, desperate need

of external capital to restart many

of the areas of the manufacturing economy there that are slow globally.

demand has fallen off.

China is the factory floor for much of the world and that factory floor is running low on orders.

So Mr. She is in Europe, had in hand

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