come to the of his news asia jones and the tatty with us emerging markets stocks ended a 6 day winning streak today on dismal data from china its economy grew at its lowest pace in nearly 3 decades in the quarter weak demand at home and abroad is hitting production a trade war with the u.s. doesn't help either. from the steelworks of. to the container ports of guangdong and to shanghai as luxury shopping malls growth in the world's 2nd largest economy is losing its gloss china's g.d.p. grew by 6 percent in the 3 months to the end of september that's the weakest growth since china started reporting data by quarters in 1903 officials warn of an increasingly challenging environment yes and you do let me gingerly economy maintained overall stability in the 1st 3 quarters however we must know that given the complicated on severe economic conditions at home and abroad slowing global growth and increased external instabilities uncertainties we commonly is under mounting downward pressure. on. many problems china faces or home grown industrial output and fixed asset investment. china's army of

welcome to your business asia a monica jones in berlin good to have you with us chancellor angela merkel says germany will make relations with china a key issue during its 2020 presidency she says europe needs a unified policy on china the world's 2nd biggest economy it's also germany's largest trading partner a crucial market for its cost of machinery brussels has taken a tougher line on beijing of late describing it is a strategic competitor germany takes over the rotating 6 months your presidency in the 2nd half of next year. for more let's cross over to our financial market correspondent all of ours are standing by for us in front furred all in how the former economy minister of germany said the difference between europe and china was that china has a plan is germany now trying to catch up here. i think so angela merkel sounds like she at least has the idea of a plan and she wants to tackle that when she takes on the presidency as of july 2020 and the time is right the partner u.s. is involved in a trade conflict with china and it's threatening europe as well there's a w t o's spat o

business asia want to get jones and well and good to have you with us apple has withdrawn an app that of protesters in hong kong have used to track police movement this comes after some harsh criticism by the chinese communist party official newspaper the people's daily earlier this week the take giant said the crowd sourcing up h.-k. map dot live violated its terms and that it's been used in ways that endanger law enforcement and residents in hong kong the developers on the app disagree with that the up in the app store had been used by hong kong demonstrators to track the location of police now following pressure from china it's no longer available explaining the decision.

but have to do the other business asia want to get jones and well in thanks for joining us and the international monetary fund has just cut its outlook for the world economy citing trade disputes for the slowdown the i.m.f. is now forecasting 3 percent growth this year the weakest since the 2008 financial crisis now this as trade talks between china and the us are faltering and the latest development the chinese government has set concrete conditions according to her bloomberg china wants the u.s. to roll back the terrace imposed on chinese products at the start of the trade war then and only then will china need its side of the deal and buy $50000000000.00 worth of american agricultural products donald trump said the 2 sides were getting closer but it looks like the deal struck at the weekend is heartening by a friends of your group. go through some reports of a more on.

welcome to do business asia want to get jones of berlin good to have you with us she away has posted an increase in sales despite u.s. sanctions targeting its smartphone and 5 g. businesses that were up around 24 percent during the 1st 9 months of $29000.00 compared to a year ago the white house added the chinese company to a trade blacklist in may however shipments of its smartphones have risen by more than a quarter this year norway has been developing its own software and hardware to reduce its reliance on the u.s. . your way is a leader in 5 g. technology and 5 g. is going to revolutionize business while at least that's the sales pitch some european governments and business lobbies have been using but it's also tailor made for states of aliens. this camera is one of more than $1009.00 the streets of the serbian capital belgrade the 5 g. software which connects them is able to identify and track individuals local authorities argue the system created by chinese telecommunications giant huawei helps reduce crime in the city of 2000000 but critics say the system is not well suited to

but have to do with business asia want to get jones and lynn thanks for joining us and the international monetary fund has just cut its outlook for the world economy citing trade disputes for the slowdown the i.m.f. is now forecasting 3 percent growth for this year the weakest since the 2008 financial crisis now this trade talks between china and the u.s. are faltering and the latest development the chinese government has said concrete conditions according to her bloomberg china wants the u.s. to roll back the terrace imposed on chinese products at the start of the trade war then and only then will china need its side of the deal and buy 50000000000 dollars worth of american agricultural products donald trump said the 2 sides were getting close but it looks like the deal struck at the leak and is heightening by afraid of your. point of a more on the impact of this protracted trade war is having on china as well as other asian economies i'm joined by our director of the mocker economic research division at the asian development bank so good to have you with us let's start 1st of all with

business asia want to get jones and well and good to have you with us apple has withdrawn an app that to protesters in hong kong have used to track police movement this comes after some harsh criticism by the chinese communist party official newspaper the people's daily earlier this week the tech giant said the crowdsourcing app h.k. map dot live violated its terms and that it's been used in ways that endanger law enforcement and residents in hong kong the developers of the app disagree with that . the up in the app store had been used by hong kong demonstrators to track the location of police now following pressure from china it's no longer available explaining the decision the company said it posed a security risk because it helped protesters plan attacks on police stations a claim the developers reject in a tweet they said we disagree with apple and the hong kong police forces claim that the h.k. map up in the injures law enforcement and residents in hong kong. critics accuse it of putting business interests ahead of human rights china is a multi-billion dollar market for the compa

welcome to do your business asia i want to get jones in berlin good to have you with us chancellor angela merkel says germany will make relations with china a key issue during its 2020 year presidency she says europe needs a unified policy on china the world's 2nd biggest economy it's also germany's largest trading partner a crucial market for its cost of machinery brussels has taken a tougher line on beijing of late describing it is a strategic competitor germany takes over the rotating 6 months presidency in the 2nd half of next year. and for more let's cross over to our financial market correspondent all the bars are standing by for us in front furred all in how the former economy minister of germany said the difference between europe and china was that china has a plan is germany.

i want to get jones and this is business asia welcome and we're starting with the latest incident in the volatile gulf region oil prices have surged after what is believed to have been a missile strike on and ukrainian tanker and the ritzy benchmark brant crude oil rose over 2 percent and trading to reach $60.40 a barrel after this beauty was hits off the saudi port city off jeddah the ship was headed towards iran iraq what in the gulf it was the latest strike by an unknown attacker on oil facilities in the gulf region a bombing of a saudi arabia smartest oil processing facility the summer cost a 10 percent spike in the oil price but markets calmed quickly as output was restored. for more i'm joined now by joseph head of oil and gas analysis at fitch solutions in london good to have you with us so you comparison to this attack on saudi oil processing facility in summer how serious is this latest.

jones futures really little changed as well. sentiment dorisk you see in the gmm? anna: things look pretty mixed in the gmm overnight in asia. the session in terms of risk assets dominated by concerned about the amazon story. reassessment of whether the market is interested in the profits or the investment. many want both. that seems to be part of the narrative. we talked about this dichotomy with nokia a little bit earlier this week, as well. this is what we have handed over to us from yesterday's markets. some of the asian equity session looking pretty mixed. the s&p in the u.s. over 3000. with that in mind, any sense earnings are not going to deliver seems to cause the market to question whether the market can really rally in from 3000. 3000 not all that far from all-time highs for u.s. stocks. add in the layer of geopolitical uncertainty, mike pence criticizing china and the way it has handled the hong kong situation. a lot of uncertainty for markets to deal with in geopolitics and trade and the earnings story, even as the earnings narrative has been a little bit more positive against much reduced expectations. now to th