新闻纵贯线 Today updated 20:00 2017/06/21（在线收听）

中美首轮外交安全对话今日展开

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

Coming up：

--Chinese stocks get a big boost from MSCI

--U.S. imposes new sanctions on Russia over Ukraine

--The first China-US diplomatic and security dialogue is about to start

For more on this, we early have Liu Baocheng, Professor at the business school of the University of International Business and Economics, spoke with Zhao Yang；and joining us on the line is 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;Zhao Changhui, Senior analyst, the Export-Import Bank of China early spoke with Zhao Ying.