hearing, has held what the us calls candid and constructive talks with china s foreign minister in beijing. this at the start of two days of meetings with chinese officials. mr blinken emphasised the need for diplomacy and keeping open channels of communication us officials added. the trip to china is the first by a top us diplomat in almost five years and comes months after an earlier visit by the secretary of state was postponed when a suspected chinese spy balloon flew in us airspace. can this trip reboot relations? to discuss this and what s at stake for the world s two biggest economies, i m joined by alicia garcia herrero chief economist at natixis. good to have you on the programme. from your perspective, when we are looking at trade, the two biggest economies in the world, how important is this trip? extremely important. and the main reason for this trip is not even trade, it s about assurance to really avoid a military conflict in taiwan and i think that s th
security detail tackling the suspect. a local resident in his 40s. the gun he used appears to have been handmade, a motive not known at this time. as brianna said abe was japan s longest serving prime minister and was still a towering figure in japanese and international politics. he had crucial working relationships with both president obama and president trump. this assassination causing shock waves around the world this morning. let s get right to cnn s blake essig who is in tokyo with the very latest. blake, what can you tell us? reporter: brianna, john, devastating news here in japan. doctors at nara medical university hospital have confirmed that japanese former japanese prime minister shinzo abe has died after being shot twice, once in his chst and once in his neck. doctors treating former prime minister said that his heart had actually stopped by the time that he reached the hospital, they said that he was bleeding profusely and that the bullet that killed abe w
main reason for this trip is not even trade, it s about assurance to really avoid a military conflict in taiwan and i think that s the first thing that antony blinken needs to secure, which will then give the floor to continue to trade and investment. the floor to continue to trade and investment. china said that its core interest and investment. china said that its core interest is and investment. china said that its core interest is tie and investment. china said that its core interest is tie one - and investment. china said that its core interest is tie one on i its core interest is tie one on the biggest risk to china us relations as well, depending on what the us does or doesn t do. how do you see that playing out in the future, are you concerned about what china might do in terms of taiwan? i think blinken is concerned, i don t know if i should be but the point is that the whole us is, in my view, increasingly wary about the possibility especially after the elections in ta
hearing, has held what the us calls candid and constructive talks with china s foreign minister in beijing. this at the start of two days of meetings with chinese officials. mr blinken emphasised the need for diplomacy and keeping open channels of communication us officials added. the trip to china is the first by a top us diplomat in almost five years and comes months after an earlier visit by the secretary of state was postponed when a suspected chinese spy balloon flew in us airspace. can this trip reboot relations? to discuss this and what s at stake for the world s two biggest economies, i m joined by alicia garcia herrero chief economist at natixis. good to have you on the programme. from your perspective, when we are looking at trade, the two biggest economies in the world, how important is this trip? extremely important. and the
posture, its defense forces and that didn t go down so well inside japan, but he was a man as we ve heard from secretary of state antony blinken who was a man of vision. and i use that particularly carefully and particularly precisely here because shinzo abe taking japan on the world stage, just think about it, when he was prime minister 2012-2020 in the first two years he visited almost 50 different countries. so he gave japan a bigger global role and a stronger defense force. the vision part is because that s exactly what partners like the united states began to need as relationships with china worsened. and this divided sort of global situation between the united states/china on one side, japan was firmly a good ally and becoming an increasingly strong ally in europe, hence the strength of statements we have