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Governor Brown Goes to China
California Governor Jerry Brown is in China, bringing a little Hollywood to the Middle Kingdom and hoping, in return, for some foreign investment in California businesses.
By Tess Vigeland • • 26m ListenCalifornia Governor Jerry Brown is in China, bringing a little Hollywood to the Middle Kingdom and hoping, in return, for some foreign investment in California businesses. He's visiting five cities in six days, and will open a shiny new, privately funded trade office in Shanghai while he's there. Guest host Tess Vigeland asks what the potential payoff might be. Also, the economics of music in the desert.
On our rebroadcast of today's To the Point, Warren Olney explores how President Obama's new budget will be received when both parties are already thinking about mid-term elections.
Banner image: Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa (L) with Governor Jerry Brown (2nd R) and Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping (R) on the Vice President's visit to Los Angeles, February 16, 2012. Photo: David Starkopf/Office of Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa
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2 storiesGovernor Brown Goes to China
Jerry Brown probably could've picked a better time to head across the Pacific for meetings in China , given the roiling political showdown underway on the Korean peninsula. Nevertheless he and a cohort of 90 business and policy leaders are in Beijing on a mission to increase trade ties between China and the Golden State.
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