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Speaker 2: This is the Bloomberg Daybreak Asia podcast. I'm Brian Curtis

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Speaker 1: And now one of our main stories, China and Russia

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Speaker 1: promising to intensify cooperation encountering the US. Russian President Putin

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Speaker 1: is in Beijing for a state visit. Now, mister Putin

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Speaker 1: and Chinese President She have warned of growing nuclear tension

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Speaker 1: between their countries and the United States. We spoke earlier

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Speaker 1: with JP Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Diamond. He says, despite

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Speaker 1: geopolitical tensions, the US needs to engage fully and deeply

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Speaker 3: China is not a natural eneer of the United States.

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Speaker 3: A lot of their own problems. So you know, to me,

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Speaker 3: we could work together as best we can and then

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Speaker 3: we have common interest climate, anti nuclear.

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Speaker 1: Deforation, JP Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Diamond. Now, despite these

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Speaker 1: heightened tensions, he is moving with caution in China. By

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Speaker 1: the way, he was speaking earlier with Bloomberg's friends in

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Speaker 1: Laqua at JP Morgan Chase's Global Markets conference in Paris.

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Speaker 2: Brian, let's bring in John Leu, Bloomberg executive editor in

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Speaker 2: Beijing for a discussion about this. So, John, I'm curious

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Speaker 2: whether or not you know, we see the relationship between

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Speaker 2: analysts say, or one of shared values and warm bonds.

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Speaker 4: I think there's I think there's a little bit of both.

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Speaker 4: I think there's no denying that the relationship serves both

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Speaker 4: is a long history between these two countries. Part of

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Speaker 4: that history was quite tense. There was a conflict back

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Speaker 4: in the sixties and seventies between China and Russia. There's

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Speaker 4: a long border that the two countries share. More recently,

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Speaker 4: I think the fact that both of them have major

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Speaker 1: Is the dependency on one another pretty much balanced, or

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Speaker 1: does someone have the upper hand. Let's say, does China

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Speaker 4: Economically, China is the much bigger player on the global stage.

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Speaker 4: It is technologically and when it comes to electric cars,

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Speaker 4: and so if you look at it from that perspective,

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Speaker 4: China has advantages in that relationship.

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Speaker 2: Vladimir Putin described a relationship as one of the main

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Speaker 4: I think the global South is I would call it

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Speaker 4: he would argue as legitimate protecting Russian rights. Obviously, there

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Speaker 1: So if the Global South is sitting on the sidelines,

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Speaker 4: I think the China, the way that I have heard

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Speaker 4: So there, the two economies are becoming ever more integrated,

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Speaker 4: And you actually heard mister Putin talking about how ninety

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Speaker 1: When it comes to oil, we know that a fair

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Speaker 4: I think the Chinese financial institutions, especially the big global players,

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Speaker 2: Large, John, I wanted to just spend a minute talking

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Speaker 4: I think I think over the last thirty years, in

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Speaker 1: That we have the new president, that of Taiwan that

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Speaker 1: to visit, John, that this is obviously the hot spot

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Speaker 4: I think the Ukraine situation probably is going to make

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Speaker 4: that has not worked out the way that the Russians

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Speaker 4: a quick war executed swiftly. And Taiwan, unlike Ukraine, is

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Speaker 2: be with us, John Liu, Bloomberg Executive Editor in Beijing.

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Speaker 2: Let's get to our guests. An it'sa NIP head of

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Speaker 2: didn't want to overreact after about three months of harder

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Speaker 5: Basically, we reckon that the inflation it's going to be

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Speaker 5: So I think FED would be patients and at the

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Speaker 5: Can we talk.

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Speaker 1: About China now? There is so much going on there,

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Speaker 1: especially where the property market is concerned. One of our

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Speaker 1: Bloomberger reporters pushed out a story talking about the government

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Speaker 1: in Beijing planning to hold a meeting today with key

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Speaker 5: the infrastructure projects. From what we reckon, we reckon, it

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Speaker 1: Our guest is adri Go, a head of set allocation

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Speaker 1: by final trading day of the week. A couple of

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Speaker 6: Yes, we are quite constructive in terms of all week

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Speaker 6: Well, I think there's room for other parts of the

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Speaker 6: So we are still await in terms of the US market.

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Speaker 1: Okay, a big booster. We'll leave it there. A great

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Speaker 1: weekend to you, Audrey Audrey Gough, head of Asset Allocation

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