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it's another front in the trade war between the two economic giants, as our asia business reporter, mariko oihey're going to investigate us tech giant google for its anti—monopoly behaviour. now, of course, its main business that we all know, its google search engine has actually been blocked in china since 2010. so many started wondering what kind of business activities they still have in china. it still provides apps and games to the chinese market through partnership with local developers. it also has some local advertising business, but it's not a huge part of their business. so just like those tariffs that were announced earlier, some analysts have been saying that those moves seem more symbolic and sending a message to washington, because, of course, beijing has repeatedly said that no one is going to win a trade war. and they have been asking for a discussion between president xijinping of china and president trump. so how are global markets reacting to all the latest developments? let's hearfrom simon french, chief economist at panmure liberum. the two things that stood out to me ther

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