FT News Briefing

US and China meet in an attempt to ease tensions

US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken has met with China's President Xi Xinping in an attempt to ease US-Sino tensions. Plus, the aerospace industry says that flying taxis could soon be on the horizon in cities around the world. Mentioned in this podcast:<a href="https://www.ft.com/content/900dcadf-3029-4528-87a3-63c21ec3a21d/?segmentId=7d4bcc2e-e664-92ba-62e3-5590579f1902" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Xi Jinping sees ‘progress’ in China-US ties at meeting with Antony Blinken</a><a href="https://ig.ft.com/flying-taxis/?segmentId=7d4bcc2e-e664-92ba-62e3-5590579f1902" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Which flying taxi will take off first?</a><a href="https://www.ft.com/content/5742a29f-0c8e-44ab-aa5e-a90cbb56593f/?segmentId=7d4bcc2e-e664-92ba-62e3-5590579f1902" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Amazon, Hilton and Starbucks to hire thousands of refugees across Europe</a> The FT News Briefing was produced by Fiona Symon and Josh Gabert-Doyon. The FT’s global head of audio is Cheryl Brumley. The show’s theme song is by Metaphor Music and Simon Panayi was the audio engineer. <a href="https://www.ft.com/content/b6fe533b-cc7f-421a-ad0e-965662f30f5c" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Read a transcript of this episode on FT.com</a> Hosted on Acast. See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color:grey;" target="_blank">acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

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