After the fall of Syria's president Bashar al-Assad, we look into the challenges the nation will face to rebuild the economy. China has launched an antitrust investigation into Nvidia, the world’s most valuable maker of computer chips. We find out why. Baseball player Juan Soto has agreed a $765m deal over 15 years with Major League Baseball's New York Mets, the biggest contract awarded in the the history of sport. We look into the details. Rahul Tandon discusses these and more business stories with two guests on opposite sides of the world: Sergio Guzman, director of Colombia Risk Analysis in Bogota, and Yoko Ishikura, Professor Emeritusof Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo.
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We're going to talk about Nvidia TikTok, Rupert Murdoch, Donald Trump, Syria, and also the world's highest paid sports star who plays a sport that I'm not sure many people would have would guess it would be in that particular sport.
We're going to come to that a little bit later in the program.
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As always, we're joined by two guests on opposite sides of the world.
We've got Yoko Ishikura, professor emeritus at Hito Subashi University, currently a member of the World Economic Forum's expert network.
How are you, Yoko?
How are things in Japan?
Tell us, you know, it's been a turbulent time politically over the last few months.
Give us your assessment of where we are at the moment.
Very much so.
I think so.
And because we're the Korea, we don't know what's going on in Korea.
We have no idea what China is up to, what is North Korea is up to, and things like that.