VP Vance is in Delhi to meet Modi amid tariff tensions

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  Hello and welcome to World Business Report from the BBC World Service.

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  I'm Mark Ashton and on this edition, the vice president of the United States, JD Vance,

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  touches down in India to kick off trade talks as China wants countries to tread carefully in doing deals with the Trump administration.

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  Vance appeared to be on a charm offensive

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  as he visited a small Emporium business in Delhi with his wife and children in tow.

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  We have never seen such a humble and polite and soft-spoken persons at such a big level.

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  It means a lot to us.

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  Plus,

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  how smuggling in West Africa is costing governments billions at a time of increasing concern over global trade.

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  People are bringing in a lot of cosmetics, food, alcohol,

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  and then increasingly we also see high value smuggling of gold and other things, cocoa.

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  And from skyscrapers to supercars,

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  how Dubai is recruiting social creators to post their experiences and help sell the tourism dream.

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  All that's still to come.

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  But let's start with China,

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  issuing a warning to countries negotiating new trade agreements with the United States,

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  saying it firmly opposes other nations' striking deals at Beijing's expense.

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  The Chinese Commerce Ministry said it was prepared to take countermeasures if this occurred.

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  At a joint news conference in Beijing with his Indonesian counterpart,

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