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Welcome to the views room, a podcast from Reuters' Breaking Views. I'm Anthony Curry in New York.

We have a show packed with great stuff this week. Later on,'ll be talking to our in-house soft bank whisperer Liam Proud in London

to discuss what boss Masayoshi Sun does next after moves to help bolster the tech investment

firm's sacking stock price paid off. And I'll be handing over to my colleagues in Asia to give us a taste of a food M&A fight in Japan.

First, though, Gina Chon joins me from the West Coast to talk about the day that big tech CEOs went to Washington, virtually, of course.

Gina, thanks for coming on the show. Great to speak to you again.

Thanks for having me.

So, Gina, this week it's been all about on Washington, well, not just about this, but

one of the big things we've been looking at coming out of DC are the big for from the world

of tech being on Capitol Hill.

Well, being there virtually, of course, given the pandemic.

So it was Jeff Bezos of Amazon's first time appearing before Congress, but also he was joined

by his peers from Apple, Facebook and Alphabet's Google unit, although of course the CEO

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