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Stephanie is joined in the studio by Tim Watkins, vice president of the western arm of Chinese telecommunications company Huawei; Richard Fenning, chief executive of global security consultancy Control Risks; and Vineet Nayar, chief executive of Indian IT services company HCL Technologies.
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