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This is CBSI on the world.

I'm John Batchel. I welcome my good colleague Chris Regal, a CEO of

Scholar.com, a global technology firm with business on all the major occupied continents.

And we begin with the occupied continent of Asia, especially East Asia. The Financial Times

reporting in these last hours, Chinese state

media has said there would be no harm, that's a quote, in holding trade talks with the Trump

administration, indicating a softening of Beijing's position as both sides look for a way out of

their crushing tariff war.

This is written in London and reporting from Beijing and from Washington.

The gesture comes as Trump has indicated he hopes to negotiate over trade

and as the fallout has begun to show in China's economic data,

with factory activity in April dropping the most since 23.

Chris, you predicted this.

Well, you didn't actually say it.

You said it's already happening as early as last summer.

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