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Enda Brady: UK correspondent on Sir Keir Starmer's meeting with Xi Jinping · Best of Business

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  Speaker 2: In the Brady, UK correspondent is with us. Hello, Inda, Heather,
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  Speaker 2: right to speak to you. How did Kiostama's meet and
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  Speaker 2: go with shooting pain.
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  Speaker 3: I think it's gone very well and it's very significant
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  Speaker 3: because the first time a British Prime minister has met
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  Speaker 3: the Chinese president for five years. You have to go
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  Speaker 3: back to Theresa May. And obviously this is all about
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  Speaker 3: growth and the economy and business and money, and we're
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  Speaker 3: limping along here the last quarter zero point one percent
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  Speaker 3: of growth in the British economy. It's simply not good enough.
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  Speaker 3: Starmer is a pragmatist and he's even said it in
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  Speaker 3: his speech and talking to reporters in Brazil at the
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  Speaker 3: G twenty where this happened, he said he wants a
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  Speaker 3: serious and pragmatic relationship with China. It's all about business
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  Speaker 3: and look, there will be some concerns over human rights
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  Speaker 3: abuses and the treatment of the wigurs in certain regions
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  Speaker 3: of China, but I think Starmar is just going to
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  Speaker 3: pinch his nose on that one and just see if
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  Speaker 3: he can develop relations with China in a way that
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  Speaker 3: no prime minister has since Cameron.
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  Speaker 2: Is any part of this designed to kind of irritate Trump.
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  Speaker 3: I think it's Trump proofing in a way, as the
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  Speaker 3: phrase I've been hearing around Europe and talking to certain
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  Speaker 3: leaders and politicians and business people the last few weeks.
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  Speaker 3: They're just trying to make sure that they're ready for
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  Speaker 3: whatever happens. And I think the big fear in Europe
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  Speaker 3: is trade Tariff's that if he starts whacking on ten
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  Speaker 3: and twenty percent on goods coming from Europe. You know,
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  Speaker 3: right now would be a very useful time to be
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  Speaker 3: part of the European Union block, twenty seven nations all
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  Speaker 3: pulling together, and the UK, by virtue of the brilliant
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  Speaker 3: idea that Briggs it was, is sitting on the sidelines,
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  Speaker 3: licking its wounds and going nowhere. So Starmer has decided that,
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  Speaker 3: you know, take positive action, become friends with g and
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  Speaker 3: just see what happens.
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  Speaker 2: And you know what, it also feels like it might
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  Speaker 2: be done to slightly dissuaded Donald Trump from those terrifts,
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  Speaker 2: because what Stam is indicating is that's cool, mate, you
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  Speaker 2: can hit me with the teriff. I'm just going to
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  Speaker 2: pivot this way.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, And I think the big fear for Europe will
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  Speaker 3: be that if China gets hit with tariffs from Trump,
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  Speaker 3: that Europe will get flooded with an awful lot of
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  Speaker 3: even cheaper Chinese goods that they want to offload. Certainly,
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  Speaker 3: the EV vehicle scene is something that is taxing a
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  Speaker 3: lot of brains in the European Union right now. They're very,
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  Speaker 3: very concerned because the Chinese evs are so much cheaper
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  Speaker 3: than anything they're making in Germany right now, for example.
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  Speaker 3: So it's look, it's a fascinating time. Plus Starmer is
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  Speaker 3: no idiot. I think he's really kind of upped his
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  Speaker 3: game and he's realized that how can we grow this
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  Speaker 3: economy with the impact and damage Breggs that has done.
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  Speaker 3: We need the Chinese on board.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 4: Is it actually true that Moe Farrah had his phone
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  Speaker 4: necked and then chased the van down?
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  Speaker 3: It is now. I know Mo and I've trained with him,
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  Speaker 3: believe it or not. I run with him a few times,
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  Speaker 3: and he's always messing around with his fitness watch, and
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  Speaker 3: so what he was doing was he was in the street.
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  Speaker 3: He lives in a private gated community as you would
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  Speaker 3: imagine one of the world's fastest people and hugely successful,
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  Speaker 3: multi millionaire, double winning gold medalists would be. And he
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  Speaker 3: had his phone on the street and he was doing
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  Speaker 3: his exercises directly outside his house, and he's running along
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  Speaker 3: and the van pulls in, sees the phone by the pavement,
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  Speaker 3: and a guy jumps out, quips the phone and the
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  Speaker 3: van drives off. But unfortunately for the van driver, he
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  Speaker 3: got outsprinted by Moufara. Mafara caught up with them and
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  Speaker 3: he's the most recognizable sports person in Britain, and he
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  Speaker 3: stuck his head in the van window and said, give
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  Speaker 3: me my phone back now. And of course they couldn't
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  Speaker 3: get out of that. It's a gated community, so there
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  Speaker 3: is an entrance code and CCTV cameras everywhere, and I
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  Speaker 3: think the two idiots in the van thought, you know what,
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  Speaker 3: this is not worth the hassle, so they give Molfarrell
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  Speaker 3: back his mobile.
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  Speaker 4: Phone two right into geez, is anybody in the world
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  Speaker 4: you don't know? I'm so impressed, Thank you so much.
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  Speaker 4: I just trained with mo No big deal. Into Brady
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  Speaker 4: are UK correspondent.
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