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Guys, have you ever had a relationship, friendship, perhaps, that's, uh, well, got a bit awkward

and then suddenly you've got to see that person again?

I've got to say, I don't like it when you put me on the spot like this,

because I feel like it's every time you and all look at me before we start recording.

No, no, no.

I come from a large Indian family.

Every day, I'm starting on a new footing with one member of it or the other,

but fortunately with you guys haven't got there quite yet.

So bygones being let bygones.

Let's see if that maybe is one of the many themes this week as Donald Trump and

Xi Jinping meet the presidents of the world's two biggest economies, aiming to reset that

relationship.

That's today's episode of Business Daily from the BBC World Service. I'm Will Bain here in the

studio in the UK. I'm Michelle Flurry in New York. And I'm Roald Tandah sat just next to Will in the studio.

Yes, in the last couple of hours before we started recording guys, President Trump

descending the stairs of Air Force One in Beijing. The first US president in almost 10 years

to visit China and in between, quite a lot's gone on,

Michelle. Yeah. I mean, if you think back 2017, that's when Donald Trump was doing that sort of

hyper grand state visit. In between, Joe Biden, he never went. Barack Obama went about three

times trying to figure out the relationship between these two

superpowers. And you're sort of wondering what's going to happen. Are we going to see sort of some

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