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Speaker 1: Hi. I'm Andy Brown, the editorial director of the Bloomberg

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Speaker 1: New Economy, and I'll be with you for the next

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Speaker 1: few weeks sharing highlights of my two video broadcasts called

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Speaker 1: on the front Lines and Bloomberg New Economy Conversations that

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Speaker 1: look at how COVID nineteen is reshaping the global economy.

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Speaker 1: You can find them all on Bloomberg dot com. Going

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Speaker 1: into this pandemic, U S. China relations were at rock bottom.

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Speaker 1: They've since gotten much worse, with both sides trading blame

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Speaker 1: for the COVID nineteen outbreak, spinning conspiracy theories, and abandoning

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Speaker 1: cooperation on all fronts. To discuss what all this means

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Speaker 1: for the post COVID economy, I caught up with two

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Speaker 1: Wall Street Journal reporters, Ling ling Way and Bob Davis,

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Speaker 1: who just published a book called Superpower Showdown. It's based

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Speaker 1: on year as of inside reporting from the centers of

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Speaker 1: power in both Washington and Beijing. I hope you enjoyed

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Speaker 1: this and other interviews on how the coronavirus is transforming

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Speaker 1: the business world, and thanks to Stephanie Flanders for letting

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Speaker 1: me hijack her feed. Bob and Linglan gets great to

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Speaker 1: have you on the program. You've both been living and

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Speaker 1: breathing this US China trade and economic war from the

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Speaker 1: very beginning. Bob from Washington, d c U Lingling from Beijing.

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Speaker 1: So bring us up to speed. How would both of

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Speaker 1: you score this showdown so far? Maybe Bob you can

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Speaker 1: address that from a US perspective and ling Ling from

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Speaker 1: a from a China perspective. Let's start with Bob. Sure,

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Speaker 1: and thanks great to be with you. Andy, really really

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Speaker 1: appreciate it. So you know, it's opening day and the

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Speaker 1: The pictures are exhausted. Everybody wants to go home. I

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Speaker 1: don't think there's a winner. It's just dragging on and

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Speaker 1: dragging on and they kind of taking a break. Uh. Sure. Also,

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Speaker 1: thank you so much Andy for having a song. UM

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Speaker 1: really honored to be here. Um. So, on the surface,

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Speaker 1: it does seem like China has scored some tactical wings.

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Speaker 1: You know, the Phase one trade agreement didn't really get

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Speaker 1: most industrial subsidies and as AU reform, none of it

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Speaker 1: was in part of the group agreement. And yes, China

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Speaker 1: did agree to buy tons of American products, especially act

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Speaker 1: be using this trade agreement as some additional leverage over

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Speaker 1: So on the surface does look like, you know, Beijing

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Speaker 1: is gaining some kind of upper hand. However, really dip

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Speaker 1: significant and first of all, UH, it has shattered UM

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Speaker 1: So what would be the alternative? The alternative clearly would

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Speaker 1: He was very confusing to the Chinese side, very unpredictable.

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Speaker 1: and you know, choose to work with different nations, including China,

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Speaker 1: How did all this play out in the negotiations? Well,

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Speaker 1: see the shrinkage. But back his base, his base is

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Speaker 1: still pretty damn strong. Okay, quick one for both of you.

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Speaker 1: This showdown is obviously a lot about much more than trade.

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Speaker 1: We've gone from a trade war to a tech wall,

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Speaker 1: leaders like Ray Dialio or Bridgewater a warning about a

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Speaker 1: Where is this story going? Briefly from each of you, Well,

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Speaker 1: thing still mikes it when he says, um, there are

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Speaker 1: thousand reasons to have a good U. S. China relationship,

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Speaker 1: not one single reason to spoilt. Let's hope he still

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Speaker 1: believes that Bob Davis ling ling Way Superpower Showdown. Great book.

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