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On today's The Breakfast Brief, Japanese yen continues to weaken and is now at 24 year lows, airlines are wondering how much they can raise ticket prices to cope with rising fuel costs before destroying consumer demand, and the cryptocurrency space continues to be volatile. Moreover, many banks around the world jumping on the Fed's bandwagon and introducing rate hikes.

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Synopsis: Every third Friday of the month, The Straits Times examines various facets of the US-China rivalry and its implications for Asia.

Join Charissa Yong and Danson Cheong - ST’s US and China correspondents respectively based in Washington DC and Beijing - as they chat about the issue of Taiwan, a thorn in relations between the US and China. Those differences were on full display at the recent Shangri-La dialogue in Singapore.

Highlights (click/tap above):

01:45 Understanding the US' 'One China' policy

03:05 China's Anti-Secession law; why the US has a "strategic ambiguity" policy

07:15 Why is Taiwan so important to the US?

10:04 Concern at the Shangri la Dialogue over a Ukraine type conflict in East Asia; why Chinese leaders are thinking more deeply about choices before them

Produced by: Charissa Yong ([email protected]), Danson Cheong ([email protected]), Eden Soh and Teo Tong Kai

Edited by: Eden Soh

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