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Speaker 1: coming up today. China sets a modest GDP growth target

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Speaker 1: and leadership will target disorderly expansion in the property sector.

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Speaker 1: Premiere Leka Sean calls for a whole nation strategy to

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Speaker 1: I'm at Baxter with Global News. That's all straight Ahead

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Speaker 1: get podcasts. Good morning, I'm Brian Curtis and I'm Dog Prisoner.

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Speaker 1: Here are the stories we're following today. China has set

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Speaker 1: the same as last year, and Premierly said that inflation

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Speaker 1: Well more news coming out of the NPC China is

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Speaker 1: More from Bloomberg's Evan Men. Chinese Premier Leka Chang said

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Speaker 1: Mahn Bloomberg Daybreak Asia and with more on one of

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Speaker 1: the story from Bloomberg Susannah Palmer. We're hearing this would

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Speaker 1: include advanced to technologies that could enhance China's military and

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Speaker 1: Susanna Palmer Bloomberg Daybreak Asia SoftBank semiconductor unit ARM Limited

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Speaker 1: Daybreak Asia. Well. Over the week in San Francisco, FED

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Speaker 1: Global market strategist at Invesco. Christina, investors are somewhat torn

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