新闻纵贯线 Today updated 20:00 2018/01/18（在线收听）

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

Coming up:

--Chinese economy grows 6.9 percent in 2017

--White House supports short-term spending bill to avoid gov't shutdown

--UN Palestinian refugee agency launches crowdfunding campaign following U.S. aid cut

For more on this, CRI's Suyi joined on the line by Victor Gao, current affairs commentator,and Zhang Ying, Professor of Marketing and Behavioral Science, Guanghua School of Management, Peking University；Chen Weihua, Chief Washington Correspondent of China Daily；Li Guofu, Senior Research Fellow with China Institute of International Studies；Craig Houston,journalist and editor at GB Times.