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The world's two largest economies enter the next stage of high-level talks on Thursday, as President Trump's deadline of 1st March inches ever closer - the day he's threatened to start imposing tariffs on Chinese imports. How well are these talks going? We ask Ankit Panda, senior editor at international affairs magazine The Diplomat. There's 11 weeks to go until the general election, but will South Africa's budget reverse the government's shaky economic record? Economist George Glynos joins us from Johannesburg. And as California is being forced to repay the government for grants it took for rail projects, we ask how its plans for high-speed rail could go so badly wrong.
Fergus Nicoll is joined throughout the programme by David Kuo of the Motley Fool in Singapore, and Alison van Diggelen, host of freshdialogues.com, who's in Silicon Valley.

(Picture: The American flag flies near the national emblem of China. Credit: Getty Images)