新闻纵贯线 Today updated 20:00 2017/05/03（在线收听）

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Welcome to 'Today' - an hour of world news and analysis -- from a different perspective. I'm Su Yi.

Coming up:

Danish Prime Minister invites Chinese people to taste Danish oysters.

Leaders of the United States and Russia have held their first telephone conversation since the US bombing of a Syrian airbase.

China's first domestically-produced large passenger plane is scheduled for maiden flight on Friday.

For more on this, CRI's Suyi is now joined on the line by Dr. Cui Hongjian, Head of European Studies Department, China Institute of International Studies; Tao Wenzhao, senior research fellow of Institute of American Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Science; Dr. Cheng Xiaohe, Associate Professor, School of International Studies, Renmin University of China; Senior Researcher, Pangoal Institution; Jason Liao, Chairman and CEOChina Business Aviation GroupWorld Financial Center