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World leaders and economic experts react: Brexit is 'as significant as post-9/11'

Jun 27, 2016, 15:26 IST

Chinese Premier Li Keqiang gives an address during a news conference with French Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault (not pictured) in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing December 6, 2013.REUTERS/Mark Ralston

Global leaders, CEOs, and other influential figures have gathered in China for the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting of the New Champions, and Britain's recent decision to leave the EU was all anyone could talk about.

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One expert, Ian Bremmer, President and Founder at Eurasia Group, even said a Brexit was "as significant as post-9/11" for the markets.

The UK shocked the world on Thursday when a slim majority voted for a Brexit, and the fallout since then has been dramatic - the pound crumbled to a 31-year low against the dollar, banks are already predicting the FTSE will fall to 5,000, and major property firms in are disarray.

As UK politicians scramble to make sense of a Britain outside of the EU here is a quick look at what some very influential figures in the world of business and tech had to say on the matter:

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