The challenges and opportunities facing Beijing. China has been recalibrating its economic, political and diplomatic strategies since Donald Trump returned to the White House. From renewing the state’s relationship with powerful tech giants to expanding Chinese influence in the developing world, President Xi Jinping is preparing his country for a new international order.

On this episode, presenter Jonny Dymond speaks to the BBC’s China correspondent Laura Bicker.

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(Picture: Headshot of China's President Xi Jinping. Credit: Adriano Machado/Reuters)

Producers: Peter Goffin and Mhairi MacKenzie

Sound engineers: Mike Regaard and Phil Bull

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