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Environment. He joins us now in our Bloomberg 1130 studios. Bob, good to see you.

Good to be here. As always, let's start with this meeting in Florida.

We've seen the president try to forge personal relationships with world leaders a few times

now since he took office.

What's going to be particularly different about this encounter in Florida?

Well, he's going to have to take the measure of President Shij Jin Ping, who's a very formidable,

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