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Hello and welcome to World Business Report from the BBC World Service.
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I'm Divina Gupta in India's capital city, Delhi.
And on this edition, we're talking about President Trump's But first,
let's start with a diplomatic meeting that turned tense in the White House again.
This time, U.S.
President Donald Trump was sitting with the South African President Cyril Ramaphosa in the Oval House.
That's when he revived his widely discredited claim that white farmers in South Africa are victims of a so-called genocide.
A claim that President Ramaphosa firmly pushed back on,
citing actual crime data and calling for a more fact-based dialogue.
This clash comes at a critical moment where expectations are high for U.S.-South Africa trade talks.
So will this derail the actual economic agenda on the guards?
Earlier today, I've talked to Trudy Makalaya, who is a partner at the Boston Consulting Group,
who is also part of President's Advisory Council in South Africa,
which has other industry leaders as well.
This issue around crime in South Africa did take a lot of time.
I think one way that the meeting also positioned the issue was that
if you look at crime and lawlessness in South Africa,