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here the economy is the furthest thing from deadlines. katrina, u. l. g 0, aging a while joining us to discuss the chinese economy further now is way see shay was the strong i direct to with the economists intelligence corporate network and his line from china. i thank you so much for being with us. so any other country with a more than 4 percent growth would normally be celebrating. why the disappointment in china? what's the concern? well, china has been enjoying really high cro speed over the past 3 decades, let's say. and purchased, used to be observing a high gro, speaker, for china, however, it's very natural for a, an economy that is as large as trying to, to witness a declining trends in terms of real. it's not a growth. and even china is only be a will only be growing at a 322 percent percent annually over the next few years. so you can prevent a size of the economy. now change up the economy size will still be substantial. i think people are just us to use to china having your high growth rate, so based on the historical experience, right. but

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thank you, katrina perry with bbc news. if i could follow l ukraine. lleague's comments, you refer to a multi—staged response to yesterday's attack, they hold iran directly responsible and do you consider the us to be at war or on the verge of war at this point and what impact will any response have on the hostage ceasefire deal which we are told is at an advanced stage at this point? mr secretary general, can i ask you the nato view on the us getting involved in a direct conflict with iran, what that means for nato given other priorities like ukraine and the risk to further un funding to ukraine, can nato and other allies keep ukraine going without the us if they need to do that? on the point of eu countries, on the issue of sweden and gratification, is that forthcoming soon and what does that mean for future expansion of nato? so soon and what does that mean for future expansion of nato?- future expansion of nato? so the attacks have _ future expansion of nato? so the attacks have taken _ future expansion of nato? so the attacks have taken place - fut

l to 0. type pay katrina you is joining us live from town then in china now and clearly and election that badging will be watching very closely. katrina of the whole bathing is certainly watching very closely. but time when easily does and the united states have accused aging of doing more interest bearing in these elections. now, tony's leaders have responded by dismissing those same, saying, it's the us that interfering in these polls. it's also says it's very angry about the type of us that is going to send a delegation tooth paste following the election and trying to fix that time. one is trying to treat this any visual communications to washington in one's mind. all the states preferred to time on the elections as an internal needs of that now as to whether the people here 3 with that. so it was difficult to get the full picture as information environment is very controlled, very sensitive. but we have spoken, some locals here in the shop. and it's, we've also what they thought about the elections and they say, well, that quite indifferent to them, it doesn't matter who's on top in taiwan be

tony king l 20, typing wireless say cross straight tensions are likely to escalate. when the president elect begins his tut, katrina, you reports in china, southern salman city. people routinely stopped by this temple to pay that respects to mazda to the goddess of the seats. the dallas daisy is worshipped by millions in this region as well as across the street until i want many tony, you have some new roots here and locals. are you good to emphasize this shit history? highland and we both worship module because most time when these are descendants of people from these provinces, food you originally, we are one family, kind of what you, i to you, we have same ancestors. we shared the same culture and this shows how close we are . china is officially atheist country, but the government promotes the worship of mazda to encourage the voters from taiwan to visit the mainland. state media says the board has placed a key role in peaceful reunification with the government. but being schools to unify were rebuffed by ty, once 23000000 strong population on saturday as they worked at the lighting touch, be the next president

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absolutely, l that will be the key to watch. 0ur reporter outside the watch party for the former president. good to talk to, we will talk you a bit later. i will hand back to katrinacompanies closed last week at an all—time high. us unemployment numbers are also encouraging. a recent report from the bureau of labor statistics show the current unemployment rate at 3.7 percent. last month also saw 216,000 jobs added to the workforce. and consumer sentiment surged to its highest level in 2.5 years, coming in at 78.8 — that's a big jump from just last month, where the index came in at 69.7. that's according to a report from the university of michigan. it's a reflection of the improving mood of buyers across all ages, income groups, education levels and political affiliations. but despite all this, inflation, the growing cost of everyday goods like food and gas has become a key economic issue for candidates on trail. joining me live is tomas philipson, former acting chair, white house council of economic advisor, and betsey stevenson, former chief economist at the us labor department under0bama. thank you forjoining us on bbc news. on paper, the economy is doing well u