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Viewsroom: China-US trade deal is thin gruel

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Reuters

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4.458 Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2019

⏱️ 22 minutes

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President Donald Trump is touting the latest Sino-American talks as a real win, especially for farmers. China agreed to buy more agricultural goods like soybeans, but big issues like intellectual-property theft are still up in the air. Plus: The pros and cons of direct listings. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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You're listening to The Views Room brought to you from the staff of breaking

0:43.2

views. I'm Anthony Curry and joining me in the studio in New York today are Jennifer Saber. Hi,

0:48.6

Jen. Hello. And Anna Shematsky, welcome back, Anna. Hello. Now, later in the program,

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the three of us are going to have Richard Bills joining us to de-hype the hot new thing in Silicon Valley. It's a new way, or so they tell us, of raising capital rather than doing an initial public offering. It's called direct listings. First, Pete Sweeney does up Gina Chon for a trans-Pacific chat about the latest so-called trade deal between the United States and China.

1:16.5

I'm Pete Sweeney. I'm here in Hong Kong, but I am calling long distance to Gina Chon. Our Silicon Valley technology columnist also covers Washington for us.

1:26.2

And we're going to chat a little bit about this,

1:29.1

I don't know what to call it, trade deal in underway, sort of kind of draft trade deal.

1:34.7

Partial phase one, maybe. So this seems to me very unambitious, Gina, and not what Trump was

1:42.4

selling so far. What's your take? What's coming

1:45.2

underway here? Yeah, as you know, Trump is a master at salesmanship, or at least he tries to be.

1:54.1

But in this case, I think a lot of people have figured out that it's not what he's making it

2:00.0

out to be. He announced what he's calling a

2:03.3

phase one deal with China, which he says includes the, I think he called it the best and greatest

2:11.0

deal ever for farmers, which includes about up to $50 billion in agricultural purchases. He also said China would open up its financial

2:20.1

services sector and they had made some concessions on intellectual property protections.

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