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Business Matters: Trump and Xi Meet in Florida

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Trump and Xi Meet in Florida

07/04/2017 GMT

BBC World Service - Business Matters, Trump and Xi Meet in Florida

Chinese President Xi Jinping arrives in Florida for talks with US President Donald Trump.

Could it be the most important summit of Donald Trump's presidency so far? As the US President meets with Chinese premier Xi Jinping we talk to BBC correspondent Barbara Plett Usher in Florida and find out what's at stake.

There's a strong link between food and religion in India - slaughtering a cow in the state of Gujarat could land you with life imprisonment - and in the country's largest state, Uttar Pradesh, meat sellers went on strike after the government ordered a clampdown on slaughterhouses. Our reporter Rahul Tandon gauges opinion in the northern city of Lucknow.

Unilever is selling off its margarine division in a move which could net the company $6bn. Is it a clever restructure or are we just eating more butter? We'll be finding out.

And what's in a name? If you're a company called Taser quite a lot, it seems. The makers of non-lethal electric weapons is becoming Axon as the word 'Taser' has become synonymous with the act of shocking someone. A branding expert tells us how effective the change could be.

Roger Hearing discusses those stories with guests David Moser in Beijing and Rita Trehan in London

(Picture: Chinese President Xi Jinping and US counterpart Donald Trump, Credit: Fabrice Coffrini,Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images)

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