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

Coming up：

--North Korea has filed a ballistic missile into the Sea of Japan

--French President Emmanuel Macron will significantly reduce the number of his country's lawmakers

--and Germany's leadership has downgraded the status of the US from "friend" to "partner"

For more on this, CRI'Jingnan is now joined in the studio by  Zhao Hai, Research Fellow, National Strategy Institute, Tsinghua University；Dr. Stephen R. Nagy, Senior Associate Professor in the Department of Politics and International Studies, International Christian University；Ma Zechen, Current affairs commentator early talked with our reporter;Mr. Christoph Pohlmann Resident representative for China Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung early spoke to Zhao Ying.