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Start exploring our opinion coverage and more at Bloomberg.com slash subscribe. Hello and welcome to another episode of the Odd Lots podcast. I'm Joe Wiesenthal.

My co-host Tracy Allaway, she's off, she couldn't make today's episode. It's kind of an emergency last minute

episode though because we wanted to do something very timely with just the

right guest. Obviously the trade tensions with China continuing to

ratchet up and it's really becoming less and less I would say about the trade

deficit and some of these classical topics that we think of in a trade war

and much more about the sort of brewing technology cold war as people are putting it

and the moves that the Trump administration has taken

against some of China's big tech companies. Today I'm going to be speaking on the

subject with a previous odd-lots guest going to be talking with Dan Wong

he's a technology analyst at Gavkow Dragonomics he's also a Bloomberg opinion

columnist which is is very cool.

You might recall, we spoke to Dan a while ago

about the China 2025 initiative,

the endeavor on the part of the Chinese government to really sort of build its own

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