2025-10-22
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This is the Beijing Hour.
Examining the events that impact and shape China and the rest of the world.
This is the Beijing Hour.
One hour of news and information brought to you every weekday.
Now here's your host, Shane Bigam with you on this Wednesday, October 22nd, 2025.
You're listening to the Beijing Hour coming to you live from the Chinese capital.
On today's program,
U.S. and Russian officials have postponed a meeting between the leaders of the two countries without offering a specific date.
Airbuses opened a new assembly line in eastern China for the A320 family of aircraft.
In Venezuela,
says a UN report corroborates its concerns about a deadly U.S. military campaign in the Caribbean.
In business, China's increasingly mechanized farming sector is now harvesting the fall grain crop.
In sports, Arsenal is off to a hot start in the Champions League.
and culture and entertainment, the Louvre is reopened following a brazen daylight heist.
Now the day's top stories.
U.S. and Russian officials say a planned meeting between the leaders of the two countries is postponed with no new date.
They said preparations for a meeting in Budapest were put on hold after a phone call between the U.S. and Russian foreign affairs chiefs.
U.S.
President Donald Trump said he does not want a wasted meeting with his Russian counterpart,