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Business Matters: China Takes a Great Leap Forward into Space

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China Takes a Great Leap Forward into Space

04/11/2016 GMT

BBC World Service - Business Matters, China Takes a Great Leap Forward into Space

China launches The Long March 5, its most powerful rocket ever into low earth orbit.

Author and  academic Vikram Mansharamani assesses the state of the 21st Century space race, and in particular comments on the successful launch of the Long March CZ-5 rocket from the Wenchang Satellite Launch Centre in Hainan.

Following the High Court decision that ruled that the British government must get parliamentary approval before formally triggering the exit clause of the European Union, Phillip Souta of the law firm Clifford Chance interprets the legal implications.

With the US presidential election less than a week away, the BBC's North America Editor Jon Sopel comments on the latest from the election trail in Sopel's Soapbox.

Fergus Nicoll is joined by Rosie Blau, China Correspondent for the Economist in Beijing and Dr Richard Wolff is Emeritus Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts and the founder of Democracy at Work.



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