julian fisher is the chair of the british chamber of commerce in china and reacted to the report's findingsnly, we were not surprised to see pessimism go down a little. last year in the depths of covid it was incredibly hard to do business. the one thing that surprised us was that 60% of businesses said that it was more difficult doing business now around october—november when we conducted the survey than it was a year ago. that has particularly hit the service sector especially. why is that? is that because of the worsening economic conditions or other challenges? there are three main areas. one, it's the chinese economy having an enormous impact. secondly, it's geopolitics — china's relationship with the uk and us, increasing nationalism. and finally, it's the global economy. for the service sector particularly, the backbone of the uk economy, there is less business activity and less mna, less to provide revenue for those services. are there sectors that are actually doing better in china? i mean, relatively s&b and retail are doing better than they were last year for obvious reasons beca