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Live from London, this is The Globalist with me, Emma Nelson.
A very warm welcome to today's programme.
Coming up, finance ministers gather in Washington for the IMF spring meeting.
These trade tensions will greatly impact global trade.
We project that global trade growth will be more than cut in half.
We'll look at how Asia's finance ministers are jostling for attention from the US to try to protect themselves from Donald Trump's tariffs.
Also coming up...
We are beneficial now, the fact that there is a war, because we are selling weapons.
This is the very simple equation.
But tomorrow the war will finish.
We will not sell weapons.
So somebody believes that there will be no need of security?
I don't think so.
We hear from Italy's defence manufacturer Leonardo about the need for Europe to maintain its investments.
Plus the newspapers and why Gen Z is being given lessons in how to answer the phone.