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Welcome to the Views Room, a podcast from Breaking Views. I'm Jennifer Sabah.

Viewroom co-host Anthony Curry will be joining me later in the show as we discuss a London Stock Exchange $27 billion deal for definitive. You'll want to stick around as we dive into whether the financial

data provider's majority owner Blackstone or its partner, Breaking View's parent, Thompson

Reuters, has gotten the better end of the deal. We kick it off, though, with the Trump administration's

decision to brand China a currency manipulator. It's the latest attack in the trade war between the two countries

started by the U.S. president, a conflict driven as our columnists explained by miscommunication

and unrealistic expectations on both sides. This is Gina Chan from Breaking View's

West Coast office in San Francisco. I'm talking to my colleague Pete Sweeney out in

Hong Kong after what's been a big week on the U.S.-China trade and currency front. So we're going

to try to unpack all the various drama that occurred over the last week.

So Pete, I wanted to first start out with the trade tensions themselves.

They've obviously been building, but they've also tried to step back at times with each time coming out of a Donald Trump Xi Jinping meeting, the last one which occurred earlier this year,

and they seem to have come to a truce, but then tensions have bubbled up again with Trump

imposing or threatening to impose tariffs on $300 billion in Chinese goods by September 1st. What is going on there after it seemed

like they were actually trying to make nice-nice with each other? Yeah, well, I think both sides

had unrealistic expectations of what would count as a truce for the other people and this miscommunication

has just been dragging on. I mean, but I mean, it's not just the trade truce ended, but it ended

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