Russia-China pipeline deal stalls
FT News Briefing
Forhecz Topher
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🗓️ 3 June 2024
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
Russia and China are deadlocked over a deal to build a gas pipeline connecting the two countries, far-right parties in Europe are gaining ground with younger voters, technical trouble could hamper Tesla’s upcoming shareholder election, and disagreement at OpenAI over safety and leadership has led to top level resignations.
Mentioned in this podcast:
Russia-China gas pipeline deal stalls over Beijing’s price demands
Internal divisions linger at OpenAI after November’s attempted coup
Tesla’s many international retail investors unable to cast AGM vote
How the far right is winning over young Europeans
The FT News Briefing is produced by Fiona Symon, Sonja Hutson, Kasia Broussalian and Marc Filippino. Additional help by Jess Smith, Denise Guerra, Breen Turner, Sam Giovinco, Peter Barber, Michael Lello, David da Silva and Gavin Kallmann. Our engineer is Monica Lopez. Topher Forhecz is the FT’s executive producer. The FT’s global head of audio is Cheryl Brumley. The show’s theme song is by Metaphor Music.
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| 0:00.0 | The UK's energy partner. |
| 0:06.0 | Learn more at equinore. |
| 0:10.0 | At equinore. UK. Good morning from the Financial Times. Today is Monday, June 3rd, and this is your |
| 0:18.0 | FT News briefing. China and Russia are at odds over a gas pipeline. |
| 0:24.0 | Internal divisions still royal a leading AI developer. |
| 0:28.0 | And in Europe, far-right parties are attracting more and more young voters. |
| 0:33.0 | The parties have presented themselves as insurgents against the system, |
| 0:38.3 | and that goes down very well with young people, especially young men. I'm Jess Smith, and here's the news you need to start your day. Russia and China are trying to wrap up a deal for a pipeline that would bring gas from Western Russia to China. |
| 1:05.0 | Russia needs China's market for its gas that once went to Europe, |
| 1:09.0 | but negotiations have stalled because of Beijing's hard bargaining. |
| 1:13.6 | According to F.T. sources, Beijing wants to pay low prices for the gas, |
| 1:18.4 | and it wants to commit to buying only a fraction of the pipeline's annual capacity. |
| 1:23.4 | Russia insists it's confident there will be an agreement, |
| 1:26.6 | but the impasse shows Moscow's increasing dependence on China |
| 1:30.5 | ever since it began its war on Ukraine. |
| 1:33.0 | Europeans are heading to the polls for key elections, |
| 1:39.0 | and opinion survey show that more and more young |
| 1:44.3 | voters say they will support far-right parties. |
| 1:48.0 | Our Bureau Chief in Berlin, Guy Chazan, is following the trend and he spoke to us about |
| 1:52.2 | the polls and what's driving the change. |
| 1:55.0 | What we're seeing and this is borne out by research that the FT has done itself |
| 2:00.0 | is that a surprising number of 18 to 24 year olds support far right parties. |
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