unveil its latest political h 7°?6f’tiié”"”fi fortheworlds agenda for the world's second largest economy. as trump's tariffs come into effect this week, we look at the ripple effects on markets. hello and welcome to business today. i'm steve lai. it's a big week for china. and political blueprint for the year ahead. to navigate us tariffs and spur domestic demand. it would be nice to have optimism when it comes out of opt economic n it comes out of opt economic data omes out of opt economic data omes 0 out: opt economic data omes 0 out of the economic data coming out of china, but i think at this point, we still need to remain point, we still need teremein quite pessimistic point, we still need tdremein quite pessimistic on honestly quite pessimistic an economy. i honestly quite pessimistic on economy. i mean, sure, we

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it is the company's latest foray into the high—end samsung and 0ppo. a private spacecraft has the company's first moon landing, the time a landing, the second time a commercial spacecraft has done so. in collaboration with the us agency nasa. the other us space agency nasa. the other rover blue “figs“ filled the bibs??? 77 7 carry resist miles the slustfiaef " ' carry out a reeeh tailed the hlueteaet " ' carry out a two git oh the mains research mission on the main's service —— the blue are ongoing, we have a 0scars are ongoing, we have a life page. i have more life page. lialill have more — at the top of the hour, for now.

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