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

Coming up：

--China and France eye bilateral¹ ties in the new era

--North and South Korea start high-level talks with initial focus on Winter Olympics

--Pence is set to kick off postponed² Middle East trip amid tensions

For more on this, we are joining on the line by  Dr. Cui Hongjian, Head of European Studies Department, China Institute of International Studies；Tong Kim, Washington Correspondent and Columnist for The Korea Times, Fellow at the Institute of Korean-American Studies； Wang Jin, phd candidate of Haifa university,Israel; research fellow of Syria research center of northwest university, earlier spoke with Wu You；Dr Ivaylo Gatev,Affiliated Research Fellow of the Institute of Asia and Pacific Studies at the University of Nottingham Ningbo China

1 bilateral   

adj.双方的，两边的，两侧的

参考例句：

• They have been negotiating a bilateral trade deal.他们一直在商谈一项双边贸易协定。
• There was a wide gap between the views of the two statesmen on the bilateral cooperation.对双方合作的问题，两位政治家各自所持的看法差距甚大。

2 postponed   

vt.& vi.延期，缓办，（使）延迟vt.把…放在次要地位；[语]把…放在后面（或句尾）vi.（疟疾等）延缓发作（或复发）

参考例句：

• The trial was postponed indefinitely. 审讯无限期延迟。
• The game has already been postponed three times. 这场比赛已经三度延期了。