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In this morning's The Breakfast Brief, we discuss US President Joe Biden's plan to revise the environmental part of Build Back Better, Thailand's suspension of its quarantine-free entry over Omicron fears and their central bank's plan to keep its benchmark interest rate, and more. 

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Synopsis: The Straits Times analyses the latest developments in China in this weekly podcast.

The Straits Times' China bureau chief Tan Dawn Wei chats with Money FM 89.3's Elliot Danker and Bharati Jagdish.

Highlights (click/tap above):

00:35 Why Chinese banks are lowering borrowing costs for the first time in 20 months

02:45 On the powers of the new agency, the China National Anti-Monopoly Administration

05:00 China's zero Covid strategy in the face of Omicron variant & its hosting of the Winter Olympics 

Produced by: Tan Dawn Wei ([email protected]), The Breakfast Huddle, Money FM 89.3 & Fa'izah Sani

Edited by: Dan Koh

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Lee Kian Soon, CEO, Astral Asset Management discusses how much of an impact the setback to Biden's $2 trillion Build Back Better proposal will have on markets, as well as lessons he'll be taking away from 2021.

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Before we get too excited with the metaverse and everything that we can potentially explore, it is important to understand what is exactly fueling or defining the virtual world. Jon Li, CEO & Founder, VIZZIO shares his personal journey leading deep tech transformation in Singapore to metaverse, and if Singapore could potentially be a key market to pioneer 3D capture and virtualisation technology. 

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In conjunction with the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU)’s 75th anniversary, EIU has released a new report that highlights what the future of President Xi Jingping’s China would look like and the reshaping of China as a rising power among the most momentous events of the past two decades. Tom Rafferty, Regional Director, Asia, Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) shares what we can expect from China moving forward especially under President Xi’s leadership. 

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From China’s central bank cutting their benchmark lending rate to China looking at further improving their anti-monopoly legislation and industry regulation plus their situation with Covid-19 variant Omicron, Tan Dawn Wei, China Bureau Chief, The Straits Times gives an analysis of it all. 

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